Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . ing a goat thanour wild species, which is really a sheep ; and also thePunjaub wild sheep,Ovis Cycloceras, a native of Northern India, and the Europeon moufflon,Ovis Musimon, belonging to Corsica and Sardinia. n. Their Diversified Character. That sheep were the earliest domesticated of any of the wild animals,there is no dou
Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . ing a goat thanour wild species, which is really a sheep ; and also thePunjaub wild sheep,Ovis Cycloceras, a native of Northern India, and the Europeon moufflon,Ovis Musimon, belonging to Corsica and Sardinia. n. Their Diversified Character. That sheep were the earliest domesticated of any of the wild animals,there is no doubt. Abel was a keeper of sheep, the first recorded shep-herd or herdsman of any kind. The gi-eat length of time since theirdomestication, is also shown by their widely diversified character. Theclassification of Jiinnssus shows: The Hornless, Horned, Black-faced,Spanish, Many aomed, African, Guinea, Broad-tailed, Fat-rumped,Bucharian, Long-tailed, Cap-bearded, and Bovant. To these may beadded the Siberian sheep of Asia, found also in Corsica and Barbary, and 1001 1002 CYCLOPEDIA OP Live SfOCK AND COMPLETfi 6T0CK DOCTOK. the Cretan sheep of the Grecian Islands, Hangary, and some portions ofAustria, making about all the principal sub-species. m. Anatomy of the SKELETON OF LEICESTER SHEEP. Explanation.—^Begmning with the head, the leferences to cut of skele-ton show: 1—The intermaxillary bone. 2—The nasal bones. 3—Theupper jaw. 4—The union of the nasal and upper jaw bone. 5—Theunion of the molar and lachrymal bones. 6—The orbits of the eye. 7—^The frontal bone. 9—The lower jaw. 10—The incisor teeth or nip-pers. 11—The molars or grinders. The Neck and Body.—1, 1—The ligament of the neck, supporting thehead, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7—The seven vertebrse, or bones of the neck. 1—13—The thirteen vertebrae, or bones of the back. 1—6—The sixver-tebr:i3 of the loins. 7—The sacral bone. 8—The bones of the tail, va-rying in different breeds from tw
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