. The Saturday evening post. more powerful than any domestic cattle,which, none the less, are handled with per-fect safety and sureness. In the treatmentof these several hundred head of buffalothere have been only four deaths—almostall calves; not a bad record for work that isnecessarily of the strong-arm sort. Vaccinating Buffalo The buffalo keepers went about theirvaccination work methodically, workingout their mechanical adjuncts in very prac-tical fashion. From the connecting pens ofthe great buffalo corral, which is builtstrongly of logs and great posts, a lanemakes off, converging like a
. The Saturday evening post. more powerful than any domestic cattle,which, none the less, are handled with per-fect safety and sureness. In the treatmentof these several hundred head of buffalothere have been only four deaths—almostall calves; not a bad record for work that isnecessarily of the strong-arm sort. Vaccinating Buffalo The buffalo keepers went about theirvaccination work methodically, workingout their mechanical adjuncts in very prac-tical fashion. From the connecting pens ofthe great buffalo corral, which is builtstrongly of logs and great posts, a lanemakes off, converging like a cattle chutebeyond its gate. This passageway termi-nates in a strongly made squeeze gate, ortroughlike pen, just wide enough to admita full-grown buffalo. This cozy little tem-porary home for any ailing buffalo is builtof heavy planks which run up higher thanany buffalo can jump. Wrangled into thisreceptacle as though into the pocket of awinged fyke net, Mister Buffalo finds him-self in solitary confinement, and in a very. The Vaccination Pen, Buffalo Ranch, Yellowstone Park narrow cell. A gate drops behind him; hefinds himself shut off from retreat or ad-vance, not knowing that there is a closedgate also ahead of him. He may protest,but he cannot get out, either in front, behindor above. All at once additional terror strikes himwhen he finds one side of his narrow cellsqueezing him in against the other irre-sistibly. The operator outside the chutehas thrown his weight upon a. great lever,which forces in one hinged side of theV-shaped trough in which the buffalo isstanding. His sides clamped fast in thisway, and blocked off fore and aft, the big-gest buffalo of the herd is helpless. Sud-denly he feels a sharp jab in his rightshoulder. The operator has forced home theneedle point of the vaccine syringe. Heworks through an opening a foot or so inextent which has been cut through one wallof the squeeze pen. As he feels the prick of the needle, MisterBuffalo would like to kick,
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