. The water buffalo (often called the mud buffalo) its characteristics and habits together with a description of the preparation of its hide for making rawhide loom pickers . -who hiio-ic the hiiffdlo in its luitrve surroundings undto those \cho luindle its hides. The suhiect nnitter of thefollowing fdges Ihis, therefore, Itirgely heen ohtnined fromlife-long residents of the I\ir Enst iind huffnlo hide mer-chiints in hoth the Orient nnd Engliind. The U. S. bom-meree Reports hiive also furnished interesting information,tind ii persoiiiil nrvestigiition hv the nuthor on the spot luisbrought out
. The water buffalo (often called the mud buffalo) its characteristics and habits together with a description of the preparation of its hide for making rawhide loom pickers . -who hiio-ic the hiiffdlo in its luitrve surroundings undto those \cho luindle its hides. The suhiect nnitter of thefollowing fdges Ihis, therefore, Itirgely heen ohtnined fromlife-long residents of the I\ir Enst iind huffnlo hide mer-chiints in hoth the Orient nnd Engliind. The U. S. bom-meree Reports hiive also furnished interesting information,tind ii persoiiiil nrvestigiition hv the nuthor on the spot luisbrought out much tluit is interesting und is responsihle formost of the pictures with which this hook is infor/iiiition concerning the interhreciling of domesticcuttle with the humped Lnduin Ciittle is given hv a refre-sentiitrce of ^ImeriCiin puching interests in Texiis undSouth .Imericii. It IS helieved tluit this little hook gives much informa-tion not before generall\ known, and if it succeeds in prov-ing of interest to those who use huffah/ or rawhide loompickers, it will have accomplished its purpose. iiarland Miinitfacturing Co. S,iia, Me., January, 1I22. g Qhdptcr I THE WAiER BUFFALO ( Often Tin- -Mi/.l ) 1^!IE water or mud luiffalo (////(////,f hnffclus), tromwhose hide rawliide Iddhi pickers are made,inhabits the Malav Arcliipelago and southernChina, and is also found in the Pliilippines. It shouldnot he confounded with the so-called American Init-falo, which is not a hLiffalo hut a hison, differing fromthe true buffalo both in appearance and anatomy. THE WILD nrFFAEO The wild buffalo is found in the plain ot lirahmapu-tra and the Gantres, at the toot ot the Himalayas, tromeastern Assam to Tirhut and abmy; the coast ot Mid-napur and Orissa proxinces in India, as well as on thegrass lands of the eastern portions ot the Central Prov-inces, especially in Mandla, Raiptir, Sambalpur andBastar, whence it extends as tar south as the Ciodavariand Pranhi
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