The oasis., 1894-04-19
rropoEatinr a New Bovine Race.
san Francisco ChronlcIe.

gagged in raising 'cattelo, or half breed
 buffaloes and domestic cattle. The
 word cattleo is compounding of the two
 words cattle and buffalo. Mir. Weavey
 has brought three of his half-bloods
 and four pure buffaloes along. They
 are all very handsome animals, of diff-
 erent ages, and the cattleo which are young, are of rich seal brown color and
 as fat as moles.
 Mir. Weavey, who a pioneerof Dakota
 was for some years extensively engaged in rasing wheat. One year he raised as much as 5000 bushels, but later he
 retrenched. Four years ago he hit on a novel scheme of raising cattleo, and now he sees much money in it.
 The reason for this is that both the meat and the skins are vastly more val uable than that of either buffalo or cat tie. Mir. Weayey at first had much trouble in getting cross that wonld survive. Many men had tried it but as general thing it was failure. MT. Weavey brought number of buffalo to his farm and made number of ex- periments.
 At length he tried cross of the polled Angus breed Of cattle with the buffalo, and soon began to get results that were entirely satisfactory. At first the young cattleo died, being brought forth at the wrong season of the year, but in time MT. Weayey learned that if they came with the new spring grass of the praries they would flourish like the grass. He began with one buffalo bull and one Polled Angus COW, and now hs has as pretty little herd as one would wish to see.
 Besides he has sold both skin and meat enough to bring him a handsome revenue. The skins are much superior to those of full blooded buffalo, the fur being longer and finer and of the uniform seal-brown color. They are worth on the average from sl0O to sl50 apiece, but one skin was so fine that he got S250 for it. The meat is at least 10 per cent finer than that of buffalo, too, partaking of the native wildness of that animal and the high blood Of the Polled Angus. The latter breed is black, which accounts for the uniform color of the cattleo.
 Out of both the skins and meat. therefore, it will be seen that if they thrive with anything like the certainty of domestic cattle there is plenty of money in it. But another thing has been discovered which was unlocked 1 for,and that is that the cattleo are much larger than the buffalo.
 Two of MT Weayy's yearling cattleo now weigh over HOO pounds each. One of the cattlco, too. oddly enough ! is without horns. like the Polled Angus [ cattle, which never have horns. The I cattleo shaw the heavy shoulders and 7 stout neck of the buffalo, but not to the degree by any means as in tlie latter animals. Eis object in bringing them was to exhibit them at the Fair [ and thus illustrate what could be done in propogating new bovine race, which in hisludgme ntis to sncceeu and and prove much more valuable than the buffalo.
 He rears them on his,Dakota farm in the same way as the cattle, giving them only the attention which his domestic cattle receive. He says that the troub- le heretofore in all the attempts that nave been made has been in not hit. ting on the rigLt breed of domestic cattle and in failure to have the cat tleo born in the spring with the grass.