. 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 . BufFaloes about to charge the photographer THE 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 larg
. 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 . BufFaloes about to charge the photographer THE 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/\(; CO.
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