. 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 . i THE JfATER hUFFALO 27 at one time the area given td rice was small because aroval decree prevented its exportation upon the theorythat the cost ot rice would he less; hut when the prohi-bition ae;ainst the exportation was removed, the acreati;eincreased enormously, so that irrigated land away fromthe rivers and streams was used for rice planting. Thebuffalo under these conditions could not be used to asgood advantage as
. 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 . i THE JfATER hUFFALO 27 at one time the area given td rice was small because aroval decree prevented its exportation upon the theorythat the cost ot rice would he less; hut when the prohi-bition ae;ainst the exportation was removed, the acreati;eincreased enormously, so that irrigated land away fromthe rivers and streams was used for rice planting. Thebuffalo under these conditions could not be used to asgood advantage as the bullock, owing to the absence otrivers and swamps in which to wallow. Because of this,bullocks were used tor ploughing, and when the plough-ing season was over were tied up and stall ted. Thebuttalo on the other hand is cared for with difHcultvwhen the ploughing is done, as it must be gi\en achance tor a daily mud bath or it runs amuck and. ^liiug ill the rice HcIlI, Nutc [lie dcpdi ot the mud 28 GARLJND MJXLFJCTURING CO. , too, the bul-luck is used tordriving in place ofhorses, and can heused in other thanthe ph)ughing sea-son. Disease, espe-cially the hoot andmouth disease andthe cowpox seemto he more prevalent anions; hufhiloes than amontr hul-locks, so that the tarmer takes trreater risk in raisingbuffaloes than in raisinir cattle. The luillock, therefore.
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