Buffalo X Cow

To cross the African buffalo, one of the fiercest of the continent's wild beasts, with the common milk-cow, Wynant Davis Hubbard & wife last week departed from Manhattan for a tract of land he has acquired in Rhodesia. Mr. Hubbard is a young Bostonian mining engineer who, soon after the War, went to South Africa to advise an asbestos plant. When he reached the Cape, the job was gone. Desperate, he took a position with a hunting party catching and taming wild animals for zoos. Among the beasts he dealt with (and later described in books) was the native buffalo. He observed that it was beefy, was more alert-- charging buffalo, unlike charging domestic bulls, never close their eyes. Also, the buffalo is less susceptible to diseases than any sort of domestic cow. But it is wholly unmanageable. Therefore, the Hubbard notion: to breed a new kind of cattle, almost as mild as the cow, almost as diseaseless as the buffalo.-- As an adjunct to his Rhodesian farm, Mr. Hubbard plans to build a well- equipped laboratory, not for himself but for other scientists. "There are any number of scientific expeditions going into Africa every year," he said. "Many of them begin studies that might be of great use to humanity if laboratory research were readily available."

--Every once in a while Harry Acton, shipnews reporter for the New York American, fills his column with sundry information under the title DID YOU KNOW? Last week he asked if his readers knew: "That the pure-blooded dogs brought out by the French colonials to French Indo-China are often garbed in stout canvas pants to assure their offspring against mixture with the local mongrel breed?"

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