New-York daily tribune., 1856-08-04
THE BUFFALO, OK NORTH asRlCAN
BISON
BUFFALO ROBES.


Very few persons who sDoy the comforts Of buffalo
rote il the ooldest Winter day, or hottest Summer
uittt-for no bed is more comfortable than robe
spread upon the floor or grouod, in hot weatherever
take stbOueht that the anu al that produce this ura
~, like 'be beaver ote snd deer, Of day or Ike
the mastodcn of al ancient day, is rapidly di.ap
pearDg from the face Of the earth. Time was and no,
very distant either. wh.n bufaloes were "a peoty
in Ker,ucky "a they now upon the prairies of
Northern Nebraska ard the time is SO shot siooe
herds Of bufTsloes surrounded the head of Lake
Michigan that their bones st bleaching upoo the
surfac~, or have just been turned under by the
pioneers plousbare. Some persons suppose tho-e au
mails aIe driven back by the advance Of civilization
So they are but it is back like the aboriginal hum .n
race Of America-back TO the Esprit land from
whence no traveler returned. II they are driven
back, they are now driven into cui dc sac out OF
WI ich there is no escape and in which ther- is no
COZ tpued existence for the hunted beasts. That the
wild Buffalo must perish, and be swept away from the
fsce OF the esrth inevitable az II s chat the
todon hAs already gone, or that the lodian is going
II is as inevitable that we shall lose the CON.
fort luxury and converiepce of the skins OF buaOes
az it is that they passing away unless something
soop done 10 avert the loss What that something u.s. is
the question now TO be considered The animals
not exist ip the wild state hemmed in By savage white
men spd mixed up with red ssvsges, both intent upon
obeyipp one single text Of Scripture, Slay aud eat
The savape elays to eat; the white savage eats aud
slsys, and tays again for the "sport Of being de-
ttroyer.
The only source Of e the sole dependence for sub
siserce Of many thousands Of IDdians the herds
of bu a'oes narrowed into compass, growing smaller
in almost geometca proportion every year and it is
beyond human belief to suppose that men thus sit-
usted will spare the seed though they perish for the
lack Of the harvest
For the protection Of deer and other wild game in
all The older States all statute laws have proved iu.
eectunl Such laws would prove still G0re Intellectual
to prot ct the buffalo against such border ruisns"
as intes the Inc between savage and civilized life.
Laws do not suffice to protect human life, not only in
civilized communities. but among those who claim to
be the very pink Of chivary Of civilization
What can be done to reserve to future generations
the luxurious comfort Of the skins Of buff ,loes The
wild animals cannot coptnne TO exist-they cannot be
domeeticaied and proper. They may be penned-
they may breed in captivity-but they are stl wild
apinas They have lever been tanned 80 as to prove
aovar tsgeous TO the farmer Still we believe they
can be bred 80 as 10 be So Breeders have succsded
by what they term crossing, in producing bullocks
more unlike the original than the buffalo is unlike the
donesticeted bovine race. In short, breeder sets
out to obtain any desired point, atd obtains it. The
finest SaxoDy fleece has been obtained by breeding
for fine wool The long, fine staple procured by
Bakew.ll, by a systematic course of breeding the
common sheep of England has been improved upon
by Others, till the value not only OF the fleece, oat
eso of the carcass has beer increased many fold, and
brought to almost perfection at the will of those who
guided the operation.
What haa b. en- done. can be done again. The North
American bisOD or buffalo, commonly called, can
be crossed upon the bovine race Of England aud
domestic race ia obtained that will give those who
live after the last wild buffalo has been slain better
robes than those now in use, while the flesh OF the
animal like that Of the foe oiled sheep, will still he
gooo food; or as beasts of labor, race may be OBJ
tanned more hardy than the one that we cow depend
upon for the vast amount of work done by the pa
titnt OK.
how much better worthy Of premium of $50 600
would such an improvement be, than that SUN frit'
tered away in prizes for the largest p4rsnips, or Big
pest cabbage heads or most obese specimens of the
genus SuS!
Will the State Agricultural Society of the Sta'e of
New.Yok take this subj ct into consideration, and
off such a liberal PREMIUM payable at the end o.
ten years as will induce OF the spirited cattle
breede1s not only of this State but all the Sta'es IN
cludmg the Free State that is to be the buff io
region, to take the matter in hand and produce
breed Of cattle that will furnish future generations
with improved buffalo robes