The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1894-03-09
HALF BUFFALO, HALF COW.
'Cattleo," a New Breed Of Animals Being
Raised by a Dakota Man.

Raised by a Dakota Nan.
William Weavey, Of Durbin, ND, is
engaged in raising "cattleo,' or half
breed buffaloes and domestic cattle.
The word ''cattleon is a compounding
of the two words cattle and buffalo.
Mr.. Weavey recently brought three Of
his half-bloods and four pure buffa-
loes. They are described by ths
Chronicle as very handsome animals,
of different ages, and the cattlcO,
which are young, are OF a rich seal
brown color, and as fat as young
moles. Mr. Weavey, who is a pioneer
Of Dakota, was for some years extern
sivcly engaged in raising wheat. One
year he raised as much as Is 900 BUSH
els, but later he retrenched. Four
years ago he hit on the novel industry
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 valuable than
of the buffalo or cattle. Mr.. Weavey
at first had much trouble in getting
cross that would survive. Many men
had tried it, but as general thing it
was a failure. Mr.. Wcavey brOughta a
number of buffaloes to his farm and
made many experiments. 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,
hut in time Mr.. Weavey learned that
if they came with the new spring
grass of the prairies they would -four
lsh like the grass. He began with one
buffalo bull and a polled Angus COW,
and now has as pretty little herd
as one could wish to see.
Besides he has sold skins and meat,
enough to make him a handsome rev.
enue. The skins are much superior
to those of the full-blooded buffalo,
the fur being finer and longer and Of
the uniform seal-brown color. They
are worth on the average from 800 to
$3.50 apiece, but one skin was so fine
that he got $3.50 for II. The meat is
at least so per cent finer than 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 rich
uniform color of the cattleo. Out Of
both the skins and the meat, there
fore, 1t 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
for, and that is that the cattleO are
much larger than the buffalo. Two
of Mr.. Weavey's yearling cattleO now
weigh over l,l00 pounds. One Of the
cattleo, too, oddly enough, is without
horns, like the polled Angus cattle,
which never have any horns. The
cattleo show the stout neck and heavy
shoulders, of the buffalo, but not to
the degree, by any means. of the lat.
ter animals. Altogether they are
pretty and docilc animals. His object
in bringing them to San Francisco
was to exhibit them at the fair and
thus illustrate what could be done
in propagating new bovine race,
which, in his judgement, is to succeed
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 trouble heretofore in all
the attempts that have been made
has been in not hitting on the right
breed Of domestic cattle as well as the
failure to have the cattleO born In the
spring with the grass.