Elements of agriculture, southern and Elements of agriculture, southern and western elementsofagricu00welb Year: 1908 CHAPTER XXXIX CATTLE Cattle are now kept for two main purposes, for pro- ducing beef and for producing dairy products. The time has been that cattle, like the buffalo of the plains, were slaughtered for their hides and tallow. In early times, cattle were kept for work, and this is still to some extent true. Fig. 95. — Zebu, or Sacred Bull of India Sacred Cattle. — A different species of cattle is found in India, Java, Borneo, and the Soutli Sea Islands. Some of these are sa
Elements of agriculture, southern and Elements of agriculture, southern and western elementsofagricu00welb Year: 1908 CHAPTER XXXIX CATTLE Cattle are now kept for two main purposes, for pro- ducing beef and for producing dairy products. The time has been that cattle, like the buffalo of the plains, were slaughtered for their hides and tallow. In early times, cattle were kept for work, and this is still to some extent true. Fig. 95. — Zebu, or Sacred Bull of India Sacred Cattle. — A different species of cattle is found in India, Java, Borneo, and the Soutli Sea Islands. Some of these are said to be taller than our largest horses, and some, the little trotting bulls of ('eylon, to be not over three feet liigh. A vast number of cattle is raised in the Chinese Empire, and, so far as tlie author has seen them, 263
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