The Forrest City times., 1905-07-28
TANNING BUFFALOES
TWO CALVES THAT THRIyEp
 WELL ON COWS MILK.
Sew Arrivals Wilder-One Unfortu- nate Fellow That Broke His Leg -iil-Luck in Placing Res
 tive Animal in Sling.

| park. which l was attempting to rear by hand, thriyed we'll on cows milk l "nlch l administered very freduently Tn small quantities. To be sure it disagreed with them a little at first. put they were quickly Sc: right by simple remedy, known to every farmer who has reared a domestic calf After that they did well, and gained in weight at the rate of pound a day. l though l did not give them anything like all the milk they would have taken.
 For week or two kept them in the barn, where I could watch them carefully for any signs Of ailment. but as they continued to do well. I turned them out into pasture which had been fenced with six feet of stout wov- en-wire fencing, on purpose for them. They ate d considerable quantity of grass, but came to me readily when appeared with the milk bottles They were so tame by this time. that they would allow me to sit astride their backs as they took their food Tn or der to see if they would suck the COW, l took her into the same pasture with them. They were quite willing, put the old COW. who had parted with her calf some time before. would have nothing to do with them. However when l stood at her head, the young bufaloes sucked her readily enough.
 Soon after this, I got two patent calf feeders, one with the nipple hanging below. and the other with the nipple at the end of horizontal rod. It did not take the calves three minutes to learn what these were for, and they would take their food from either feeder impartially
 Thus encouraged, telephoned to Morrison that I was ready for the oth- CT two calves. and the next day drove across Croydon mountain, to help to catch them l selected a little heifer calf two weeks old. and a frisky little bull only ten days old We were more experienced now. and captured these two with deal less trouble and dan ger than had attended our first at tempt. They arrived at Sunsit Ridge that night, and the tanning of the sec ond installment began
 When 1t came to the question of feeding, however. the new arrivals were much easier to teach than the older pair had been In fact. it was not necessary to hold them at all; as soon as they were hungry, I held a bot. tie of milk out to them in turn, and they took the nipple in their mouths and sucked freely, as though they had often done it before
 After they had become fairly calm. and would allow me to approach, with out putting or dashing themselves against the walls of the pen decid- ed to let them out of the barn into small pasture adjoining the one in which the other calves were kept Un- fortunately, this enclosure had not been made with the consideration for the peculiaritieS of buffalo calves. and The pasture consisted of two open spaces connected by narrow strip of ground. with fence on each side Soon after the calves had been put into it. 1 went out with bottle of milk to feed them as usual. I approached them along the narrow strip spoken of above and the little heifer. in a mo- ment of nervousness slipped past me Now, there is in buffaloes of all ages a very strong tendency to stick to- gether, and seldom is a buffalo content ed if separated from his companions | Where others of his kind are. there he will go if it is possible to reach them This tendency at once exerted itself in the young bull and he made a furi- ous dash past me in order to rejoin the heifer But. in passing he tried to swing too wide, and in doing SO dashed into a fence post, and fell stunned almost at my feet. In mo- ment he recovered and leaped to his feet striking out vigorously with his hind hoofs. and I thought he had sim ply had a narrow escape. But alas, as he turned. 1 saw his right fore leg swinging loose, and I knew that he had broken it above the knee In two minutes I had telephoned for men to come and help me to catch him, and in three had man of to town to get a surgeon.
 We caught the calf, and put him in | to a crate, and that night, while three l of us held him, the surgeon and an assistant set the broken limb in plas- i ter. And then 1 made a big mistake i I ordered the animal put in a sling. as a domestic calf would have been treat ed had it been considered worth the trouble But the buffalo calf, wild as 1 a hawk, could not brook the restraint, 1 struggled and worried himself into a 1 fever and died. Had he been liberated as soon as his leg was set, I believe 1 he would have come out of his trouble 1 all right.
 ERNEST HAROLD BAYNES.
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