. 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 . The hiiftalo, although a dangerous animal, is gentle to those v\ honi he knows, particularh children to thirtv-tive dollars. The pairinti; season is in thtautumn and the calves, not infrequently two at a birth,are horn in the suniiner, the period ot j;estation liein^ten months. The cow has hve or six cal\es during herlife. ITS APPEARANCE The buffalo is large in size and possesses enormousstrength, some breeds in India ave
. 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 . The hiiftalo, although a dangerous animal, is gentle to those v\ honi he knows, particularh children to thirtv-tive dollars. The pairinti; season is in thtautumn and the calves, not infrequently two at a birth,are horn in the suniiner, the period ot j;estation liein^ten months. The cow has hve or six cal\es during herlife. ITS APPEARANCE The buffalo is large in size and possesses enormousstrength, some breeds in India averaging in weight fromI 600 tf) I 800 pounds and measuring 6 2 teet high at theshoulder. Its horns, which are black and bend backtoward the neck, are ot great size, having been knownto measure 6 feet from tip to tip. The finest pair of hornson record is said to be in the IJritish Museum, the lengthalong the outer curve ot one horn being 77? 8 inches and GJRLJXD MJXUFJCTiR/\(; the basal girth i 7^ inches. Thev are more or less flat-tened and angular at the base, with rings for one-half their length, and 4 -«>*•? 3re pointed at the tip, dirtering fromthe other mem-bers ot the ijenusBos bv the dis-tinctly triangularsection ot theirhorns as well as bvthe rounded formot the hinder partof the skull. Ithas a powertulneck, short thicklegs and black hoots, which, being brcjad and splayed,prevent its sinking too deep in the mud when plough-ing in the ricefields. r he b u t^-a 1 o,when young, hasa certain amountot coarse bristlyhair ot a darkcolor, sometimeswith a reddishtint, over the headand body, but, un- RUmg buffaloes A Karen hov riding un a water buffali;
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