. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. RoMUi-US, A horse and the zebra. Romulus, born in 1896,derived from his father onl) very inilistinctstripes, while Sir John has them more clearlydefined. These zebroids are strong, manage-able, and easy to train both for saddle andharness ; it is hoped that they have inheritedthe zebras immunity from equine diseases. V THE SHEEP I. General Considerations and QualitiesCommon to the Species One of the most ancient, if not the mostancient, of domestic animals is the sheep. Itis the first mentioned in the Bibl
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. RoMUi-US, A horse and the zebra. Romulus, born in 1896,derived from his father onl) very inilistinctstripes, while Sir John has them more clearlydefined. These zebroids are strong, manage-able, and easy to train both for saddle andharness ; it is hoped that they have inheritedthe zebras immunity from equine diseases. V THE SHEEP I. General Considerations and QualitiesCommon to the Species One of the most ancient, if not the mostancient, of domestic animals is the sheep. Itis the first mentioned in the Bible. Abel wasa shepherd, which proves that the earliestknown men followed that calling side by side master bade him, and been protected as muchas possible against all dangers, he has becomestupid and dreamy; his senses have lost theiracuteness. The vigilance and perspicacityshown by certain wild sheep still existing havegiven place, in the domestic animal, to a meek-ness and docility that are now A Dutch Sheep Farm with tillage of the soil. In the beginning thisanimal certainly could not have been found ina tame state; consequently our present wooland mutton sheep must have come from a wildancestry. But all that is lost in the night oftime. He has now become, in his domesticstate, so entirely dependent on man that hecould not exist without him. Having alwaysyielded to his masters will, gone where that Sheep are very easily acclimated, so thatwe find them in the coldest climates, and alsoin the hottest. They bear the cold of Siberia,Kamchatka, and our western plains as well asthe heat of Senegal, the Indies, and Australia,which, however, does not prevent them frompreferring a temperate climate and thriving init. They can bear a dry cold better than muchhumidity. 164
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