The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-22
TANNING OF npFFALoEs-PARr ,


 reasonably tame, and showed that they were likely to live and thrive on cows milk two strong little leather halters were ordered, and the work of breaking the young bulls was begun. My farmer neighbors smiled broadly when I told , them what I was going to do. and pro phesied that there would be fun enough to go around, long before those buffalo calves were broke"
 The first thing to be done was to ad- just the halters, with a view to halter breaking the sturdy little beasts. Now, buffalo calves are afraid Oe everything they don't understand, so naturally i they are afraid of great many things, halters included, and they were not | disposed to allow me to approach while l had one of these dangerous looking articles in my hand. However, when the animals were hungry, and taking tbeir milk, they would allow one to take many more liberties with them than they would at other times; so, after let ting one of them taste his milk, I pushed the bottle through the nose strap of a halter and held it out to him again. He was suspicious at first, but hunger got the better of him, and he took the nipple in his mouth. As he sucked away gradually drew the bot tie back through the nose strap, and as gradually lis muzzle followed it until at last. my editor friend who was with me had nothing to do but buckle the other strap about the neck, and the deed was done As soon as the calf had finished the milk, he noticed a strange feeling about his head. and he galloped away like mad, to try to get rid of it. But it stayed with him. so he jumped ill the air and shook his head violently, but very soon he became used to the new sensation and went to graz ing as usual. The other bull acted much in the same way, and I left the halters on them both that they might become thoroughly used to them be- fore we carried the experiment any fur ther
 In the meantime, I had secured a, strong rope, with & snap at the end and in this rope I made hard knots, about eighteen inches apart. Next morning, while one of the calves was taking his milk, the rope was snapped on to the halter, and the fun began. First of all he bolted, but found himself brought up short, then he turned about and bolted in the opposite direction. vainly I tried to lead him about the enclosure. He kneeled down, lay down, threw him self down, and jumped into the air, and when he found that none of these
 antics freed him from the rope, he
 braced all four feet as firmly as he could, and allowed me to attempt to pull him. And I pulled steadily By and by my young friend got tired of having his neck stretched, and leaped forward with vigor. As he came down, he braced his feet again, and waited. Again pulled, and again, until I was tired and the calf was pantingr Then l let him go, and gave the other fellow lesson After that, for several days. | l had tug-of-war with one or other of the calves, always inside the enclos- ure. One morning I decided to take one of them for a7walk on the road. He { retused to follow me, and was obliged 1 to drag him a few feet at time for about half a mile. The moment we turned round, however, and headed for home, he showed a strong desire to re-
 turn and pulled me almost as hard as I mad been obliged to pull him. After
 this, l took, one, of them out on the road every days and every day there was tusse to get them away and an- other to prevent them from getting. | back too fast, I4think they would have gone away more quietly had it not been for the fact that those left behind aI- i ways called in hoarse grunts, to the departing one. and he would im-
 mediately look back and struggle to get away and join them.
 1 As the calves grew heavier every day, it became more and more difficult to pull them along when they braced their hoofs in the ground got over the difficulty to large extent by having another man walk behind me on the road, whereupon the calf which was be- Ing led trotted by my side with seldom show of resistance. But as soon as we turned, he seemed to know that he
 was going back to his companions. and AN SN ElASlil9 oL LluSCI6 lD prevent runaway. Once, when about a mile from home with one of the calves, the halter slipped off his nose, and he was l held only by the strap around his neck, It took about second for him to find out that something was wrong, and lie set off down the road, using every ounce of strength he possessed, and bel lowing with all his might. I was ob- | liged to let him have some of his own way, for I knew that, if he ceased pull- ing straight ahead the neck strap would come over his head and he would be free. Luckily I was able to turn him into a farmyard, where I twisted a. rope about his neck and held him until the halter could be re-adjusted.
 After each calf had learned to go pret- ty well alone. we decided to take the two together We had made a wooden bar, about two feet long, with a metal snap at each end. and we linked the two young animals together by their halter-rings. But the moment we at- tempted to lead them. they rushed away, got their feet over the wooden
 bar' and tied themselves in such a knot that we were tired when we finally got them apart again. The bar was after