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WIlelt some of us were a lot
younger than we are now, our par-
ents didn't have such things as
comic books, crime movies, or Hor-
ror serials on the radio to, worry
about. But they didn't lel such a
lack stop them, Instead, they wor-
ried about the "dime novels" we
we used to read just as fast as we
could beg, borrow or even buy -
then.
Whether or not their worrying
was justified ... well, it isn't for me
to say. I know that I, personally,
devoured reams of "Young Nick
Carter" and "Old King Brady" and
yet :fever took even a single step
toward becoming a "private eye" or
any other sort of sleuth. And al -
.hough I was in at killing—fictional
—of millions of buffalo by cowboys
and Indians,- the only time I ever
saw that animal in the flesh was at
a zoo.
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The above 'profound' thoughts
were inspired by word from Ottawa
that although few of us, in all likeli-
hood, will ever have the pleasure of
feasting on buffalo steak or hump,
the way "Buffalo 13i11" and the
•
other pioneers used to do, before
long we may be savoring the bison
flavor at second or third hand.
Here's the way the story goes;
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Less than a Century ago vast
herds of American bison or buffalo
roamed the mid -western plains of
Canada and the United States. For
many years these hardy animals
-were the ch'ef source of meat for
the Indians and the advance guard
of early white settlers pushing west-
ward in ,heir covered wagons.
today as the result of the whole-
sale slaughter during the last
e:ntury, The once prolific buffalo
exists only in a few scattered herds
in game pre'scrves. But if the
extensive experiments of the Canada
Department of Agriculture's Experi-
men aI Farms Service prove suc-
cessful in crossing domestic cattle
and buffalo, then the desirable
characters of the American bison
will not be lost, and Canadian con-
sumers may at least have a dash of
buffalo blood in their beefsteaks.
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For inure than 30 years the Ex-
perimental Farms Service has been
trying to develop useful hybrid
strains embodying the desirable
characters of .the American bison
with the best features of certain
domestic beef cattle breeds. The
Hybrids, whatever the percentages
of domestic and buffalo blood, are
termed "Cattalos." One great and
continuing problem in creating a
Cattalo breed of beef cattle is a
lack of fertility in the males, says
K. Mackenzie of the Range Experi-
ment Station at Manyberries,
Alberta. He has found that this
lack of male fertility persists in
succeeding generations of hybrids.
Experiments to date show that even
after buffalo blood is reduced to a
low percentage, only a few male
Cattalos are fertile.
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Early in the tests it was found
that the most satisfactory cross
resulted from the mating of a
domestic bull to a buffalo cow. In
1936 and the following years,
domestic sires of Aberdeen -Angus,
Shorthorn and Hereford breeds
were used on 770 buffalo cows. The
resulting hybrid heifers were then
7natc'd to domestic sires to give
3/4 domestic, jg domestic and so on.
Large numbers of bulls have been
,ingast s sex. •n. .. ••••••••.•_.._ -__.-.-
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Barlow in the spring of 1941 and completed five years later.
tested for fertility and only about
23 per cent have been Found to be
fertile.
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The transfer of the Cattalo from
the Buffalo National 1?ark at Wain-
wright to the Range Experiment
Station at Manyberries, Alberta,
started in the fall of 1949 When 72
head of calves were shipped and it
was completed . this fall with the
movement of the main herd of cows
and calves to Manyberries. This
change was trade because the
Department of National Defence
required the land occupied by the
Cattalo at Wainwright and also
because Manyberries offered greater
facilities for continuing the work
of improving the new hybrids and
comparing theist with range Here-
fords. ere -
fords.
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The objec, of the experiments at
Manyberries is the saute as origin-
ally conceived, trh'ch is to create
a breed of beef cattle that will
combine the buffalo's character-
istics of thriftiness and hardiness
with the meat -producing qualities
of our domestic breeds.
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First of all a study will be made
of ,he foraging ability of the
Cattalo in winter and summer and
also their resistance to cold, diseas •
and flies.
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Secondly their rate of growth, age
and size at maturity will be deter-
mined. The feeding • ah'lity and
neat producing quality will be
compared with the I-Jerefoi•ds and
feeding tes.s with bull and he:fer
calves are planned.
•
Another .. important study will
centre on the reproductive ability
of the Cattalo, and an effort will
be made to determine the causes .
of infertility in the. males and the
females and tests will be made to
overcome this defect which has
handicapped workers in the past
The herd will also be increased
to obtain new combinations of
characteristics from which to select
a desirable strain. It >is hoped to
select for a polled type of an'mal
with a uniform colour pattern, com-
bined with hardiness and beef pro-
ducing ability
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It ta11 be sonic years before the
Range Experiment Station at Many -
berries can produce a Cattalo with
the desired charac,eristics, and none
are available for distribution at the
present time. The herd at pi esent
is not uniform in appearance. This
lack of uniformity is to be expect-
ed since the animals comprising it
represent great variation. in the per-
centages of blood of different breeds
of domestic cattle and buffalo.
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This lack of uniformity in the
herd is considered an advantage as
it is not yet known what type of
Cattalo is more desirable from•the
standpoint of percentage of'buffalo
blood, or such characteristics as
winter hardiness, beef .luality,
ability to rustle or breed colour.
From a study of the results of the
tests to be conducted, it is hated
that the most desirable types,. will
emerge. and attemps will be made'
to breed a uniform herd of Cattalo.
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At i� ;i1Yf31TL 1 l.0
On New Wear's .Day a horse by
the name •of BOLERO, or some
such, stepped a distane of seven
furlongs in the record-breaking titize
of one minute, twenty-one seconds.
Next day, happening to .mention
to a friend that this was really pick-
ing then up and laying them do
he replied, "It Was speedy, all irigff't
but not near as fast as some of those
Yankee football broadcasters l: Was
forced to listen to yesterday, on ac-
count of my kid insisting oli' le eping
the radio on full blast all afternoon."
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1 rt that remark, t'0e think our
friend spoke an. Inlpe}•ial quart. Any
time we tune in spots events from
south of the line, and most espec-
ially football broadcasts, we are
reminded of an ancient piece of
doggerel which ran something- like;`
"I love its constant"Yiliumur,
I love its speedy flow,
1 love to wind my mouth up, and
I love to 'watch it go."
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They all seem to operate with the
idea that if they should leave a
split second of silence on the air,
several million listeners would im-
mediately tune them out and go
elsewhere. Ted I-Iusing, we think it
was, who originated this style of
non-stop sportcasting; but now
there are at least half a dozen just
as bacl or even worse. They fill the
listeners' ears so full of statistics
about the "colorful scene" the
"packed stands" and the crooshial-
ness of the game that, after a •few
moments of it, '1: e --personally-
cannot escape the idea that they
are reading from a prepared script,
and reading mighty fast at that. •
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I.t is all very marvellous, beyond
doubt, and represeuts a wonderful
combination of knowledge, vocabu-
lary, and well-oiled tonsils. But,
somehow oi' other, it leaves us pret-
ty cold, and makes us think of the
great Samuel Johnson who,. when
informed that a certain trick was
very difficult, answered, ";sir, I wish
to Heaven it was 'impossible" or
words tit that effect. -
All t•f which inay sound as though
we had no proper appreciation for
the finer things in life—which may
not be so far from the truth, at
that. Still, if we have to take our
sport vitt the ether, instead of iu
person, we much prefer to get it
from the lips of somebody like, for
instance, our own Wes McKnight.
'Wes at least sounds as if he was -
waiting for a particular play to de-
velop before trying to picture it for
his listeners. • Soine of the others
referred to appear to try and out-
guess coaches, players and officials
--anything at all, rattler than have
a single instant of "dead air"
of the water it might seem like a
colorless affair—yet it drew 55,000
spectators, in the middle of the
week, down to Twickenham where
the game was staged
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the most striking thing an
overseas visitor would have ob-
served on arriving at Twickenham",
the reporter says, "would have been
the marking of the play area. In
stead of the "gridiron" the English
marking is a simple hatter of half
a dozen lines. At Twickenham last
week it was made somewhat com-
plicated by the snow covered pitch
Having to be raked in places in
order to see the markings, but that
is not normal,
"The arrivalof theplayerswould
have caused concern too, because
compared to the American armored
giants the English players are prac-
tically naked. All they wore was
a woven jersey—dark blue for
Oxford,. and light blue hoops for
Cambridge --a pair of shorts, a pair
of woollen stockings, tu; ned down
•• below the- knee and a pair of boots
with leath.er or rubber studs at-
tached to the sole.
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This does not mean there is 130
body contact. There certainly is,
and especially in the varsity snatch.
There is no obstructing .and only
the player with the ball may be
tackled. When a player has the ball
he either kicks •it, runs forward
with it, or passes it and a spontane-
ous pian develops from what he
does. Very often what he- does do,
and he- did it plenty last week, is
to be• placed with no little violence
on the greensward by a member. of
• the• opposition. In "Rugger" it is•
simply not done to be hurt seriously
in the course. of a tackle. And so
mindful_ of convention are Rugger
men that they usually contrive to
get up and go on playing with un-
abated zeal.
"By contrast with the American
game Rugby is a non --stop per-
formance .with each movement
vamped up as play goes one. There
are ;to "time outs", no huddles or
committee neetiugs, and no distance
measurings and other stoppages.
Therefore Rugger has a continuity
of action that the American game
does not provide.
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"The British crown is another
noticeable contrast. The nearest
• approach the varsity Rugger folk
ever have to organized rooting is
the ribbon favours they wear. Most,
however, prefer the distinetion that
is proclaimed by their college ties
or mufflers, The outbursts of cheer-
ing that accompany the play
throughout are •always spontaneous
and there are no loudspeakers blar-
ing commentaries on what is hap-
pening. Nor, happily, those persis-
tent commercials which threaten
results to anybody who does not
immediately purchase something or
other.
A. cynic might interpolate here
with 'Well, the British have nothing
to buy anyway.' But with Rugby
I should say that the play was too
fast and continuous t0 Snake com-
mercial annotulceinents• a worth-
while prospect. It certainly was in
th.e game we have under review. It
was an 80 -minute lion -stop thrill,
.except for the five-minute interval.
Here again, we have a contrast,
because the Ruggt" then don't leave
the field. They stand in: the middle
sucking slices of ienIon or oranges
if the.ailocdt:io,n has conte their way.'
And now that all those "Rose"
"Orange" ".Sugar" and other Bowl
gables are out of the way for an-
other eleven months or so, it might.
be of interest to contrast a des-
cription of one of the big English
Rugby games—the 69th. in the
series between Oxford and Cam-
bridge, To x visitor from this side
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