The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-04-10
TAME BUFFALOES.
CarIous II abiGs of she wild Herds of the
Plains in Private Life.

Curious II abfts of the wild Herds of the
Plains in Private Life.
Cnl. Ezra Miller, once state senator
from Rock county, Wis, and also post
master at GAINESVILLE, is the inventor and
proprietor of the Miller platform and
buffer, in large use in railway cars, and
has acquired splendid fortune from
this invention. He has farm in New
Jersey, and has been experimenting in
raising buffaloes and tanning them. In a
recent interview he described them at
some length as follows: We have had no
trouble in raising them, and they herd
with the other cattle On the best of
terms. What surprised me is their
weakness. l supposed they were very
powerful, but they are rot. / have seen
a yearling Attorney bull push Bill, the
buffalo bull, when he was three years
old, right up hill. They are last, but
they ale not strong. They are also very
cowardly, very play III and very cum
ming.
/ have studied their habits and have
been greatly amused. If one of them
sees you shut a gate, he'll go up and
open it Immediately after you but he
won't go out OF the gate. mad them in
that lot there, and noticed that a length
OF the fence taat separated the pasture
from field of re was down. I sent
man to nail it up Bill stood just behind
him, and watched him closely. The man
had not got to the house before Bill
gravely walked up to the fence, put his
horns under the lower board and ripped
the whole length down, and then quietly
turned and walked away. One day the
men were working on that side hill with
bsrrows. At noon while they were eat
ing dinner under that shed they heard a
rattle, and down came Bill, the handle
Of the barrow on each horn, wheeling it.
He wheeled it to the foot of the hill |
there, when it turned over Then he |
tried to get it back. / have seen him |
roll barrel half way up the hill and |
then let it roll down, and every time the
barrel bounced over stone, Bill grunt>
ID and jerked up his ridiculous tail.
They don't below like our cattle. They
,runt.
One day some girls who were visiting
lere from New York city went on
he hill TOR blsckberTies, carrying a
mall tin pail such as the men use in
arrying salt when they salt the cattle.
Bill saw the pail, and, though afraid of
he girls, slowly walked towards them.
hey slowly edged away. Bill followed.
he girls walked faster; so did Bill.
Bill broke into trot, and down the hill
hey came, the girls still holding the
all, and frightened out of their wits,
nd Bill behind longing for salt. Hanged
those girls did Mt climb that high
ence there within three lengths OF an
pen gate. They never saw it. Bill
topped with & grunt and jerk OF his
Ill.
A curious thing is their dance. call
their war dance. and l believe the In.
ians got the idea Of The dance from them
well as the grunt. Those tree bufa-
'es would go up among those cedafs
nd Bill would rear up against one, put
is fore legs around it, and bend it down
, the ground. Then the others would
in him, and they'd all stand over the
ent sapling. Suddenly, st q given
,unt, they'd jump away, and, as the
Iplng sprspg up with switch, they'd
art in a circle around it, one benino
lie other, jumping stiff legged, coming
OWN on all four ieet at a time, and at
.ch jump all grunting.