The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-09
GOVERNMENT TO
BREED 'CATALO"
c. J. Jones in Zion En- Route to Arr
iona Range.
HAS MANY QUEER HYBRlDS
TELLS HOW PRESIDENT RoosE-
WELT TWAS SHOWN"

HH partment of agriculture have ac-
complished in the plant world IN
the way of new species. some of which
seem TO be an Improvement on nature
herself, c. J. Jones. who is stopping at
the Kenyon. hopes to accomplish by
scientific breeding of buffalo ana do
! nestle cattle. Mr.. Jones is game war
( den of Yellowstone park and for
/ dozen years has been conducting on
! his different ranches experiments in
| hybridizing which have proved highly
/ successful.
! Interested in his work, the agricul-
! turaI department of the United States
/ has decided to cooperate with Mr..
Jones in an effort to produce a species
/ of animal which shall be a cross be-
! tween the buffalo and domestic ooV,
| and which shall be reproductive OF its
( own kind. Already Nj. Jones has had
great success in the mating of the TWO
animals and the subsequent mating of
/ their offspring, and he now has Il herd
/ Of forty or fifty 'catalc" which Will
/ form a part of the stock for the expert
/ ment station which Mr.. Jones, in con-
/ poses to establish on some timber res
/ crvatiOn in Arizona or elsewhere in the
/ " est.
Going to Arizona.
! MI Jones leaves this morning for
( Arizona, where he will endeaVcr to iu-
! cate a suitable range. He is op
/ ating with the government, or at least
/ represents a company which is, the
| government to furnish the range and
! they the animals.
/ The word "cataIO," as viii lie seen,
7 is itself a hybrid of the words cattle
and buffalo.
! For a dozen years" said Mr.. Jones
/ at the Kenyon last night. Il have been
engaged in experimenting in hybri liz
/ ing, taking the female domestic cow
! and the buffalo bull. The result has
! been an animal which is larger han
/ the buffalo. whose meat win bring more
! than the choicest beef and whose milk
/ Is by far richer than that of the COW.
/ The coat, alone. of q catalO, which
/ IS half buffalo and half black COW. viii
bring as high as 500. The skin Of the
/ three-quarter buffalo resembles greatly
J Russian sable, having the same electric
! glow. The fur is twice as heavy as the
/ buffalo coat and is longer and more
| equally distributed
President ''Was Shown"
ct was when President Roosevelt
/ made his trip TO Yellowstone several
] years ago that he had the first practical
I illustration Of the value of .atalo
! skins 1 wrapped him in these royal
! furs and he. having been a practical
| raE~ Imam. could appreciate the import
/ ance of the cataIo.
/ He used his efforts to have an APP
/ preparation made by congress With
/ which the government might have car
/ ried on my experiments. But the APP
preparation was not made. consequent
J y, ] am working with the department
! of agriculture. Ny trip 20 Arizona is
! the result Of negotiations with Secre-
tary of Agriculture Janes Wilson. L
J can place forty cata1o and ali kinds of
! COWS anG buffalo, as well as other ami
! mails on government range as soon as
locate a suitable place. | have cataiO
/ which are MISUNDERSTANDING buffalo anu
! one-sixteenth cattle. and those which
! are ffteen-sixteenths cattle and one
sixteenth buffalo, as we'll as those rang
! ing from these point down to one-half
4 buffalo, one-half cattle.
! 4 have found in the course of nv
: experiments that the male catalo. con-
! tanning three-fOurths buffalo and one
( fourth COW IS not fertile: all females.
4 however are reproducing. have
/ found that the one-fourth buffalo bulls
are also fertile. The cause shall rot
+ attempt TO give, it is simply one OF ;he
I problems with which we nave met in
hybridizing. I have every confidence
! that we shall be able eventually to u1o-
duce catalo bulls nearer the buffalo
/ than One-fOurth, which viii reproduce
( their species Already the work which
| have done on my own account puts
the government ten years ahead. mat
/ is we have different crosses of catIf9
" hich could not have been Obtained
1 IN less than ten years of breeding
Will Benefit People.
Tn conjunction with the government
1 intend TO conduct breeding expert
ments and then distribute some of the
hybrids to the various state experiment
stations. Investigations will be made
along the line of meat robes, milk
butter and by-product values and ali
Z findings viii be given to the. people in
due time through the annual reports of
, the secretary of agriculture
A five minutes talk with Mr. Jones
Will convince anyone that the subject
of catalo Is one not to be grasped i'm
any one interview. One can hardly be
/ blamed, as Mr. Jones admitted. for look
as he might in dictionary, encyclopedia
or volume Of natural history a person
can find no word or picture of cataIo.
He advises cattlemen to avoid expert
ments IN hybridiZing until they are en-
abled to learn through the government
reports fthe experience of others Mr.
Jones states that he has spent thous-
anus IN accomplishing what he has thus
far.
According to Mr.. Jones the catalo
which Is the most valuable from all
standpoints contains three-fourths buff
Ialo and one-fOurth black cattle
A cross between a buffalo and a COW
has been raised on Antelope island. but
MI Jones IS the only man who has
made a scientific study of this cross
breeding.
Mr.. Jones experiments have been
conhned not only to hybrids of buffalo
cattle blood. but they have also been
along the lines of breeding be-
tween the Persian and native sheen
Here. also, Mr.. Jones has met with
success The meat from these hybrids
viii bring > or cents more per Mound
than ordinary mutton. while the wool
Is Of a greater value for rugs. The Per
sian lamb skins are more valuable than
seal skins Mr.. Jones has over 100 of
these ANIMALS and says the time is near
when American women will wear finer
Persian lamb coats than can be oh
tanned abroad
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