. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. Two Orphans from one another in the conformation of theirteeth and stomachs. The bovines form a sub-division of the class of horned beasts by reasonof their horns being hollow. This race {bos taitrus) must have had manyancestors. For instance, the Frisian ox is thought to be a descendant of the urns exist-ing in Csesars day, and French beeves aresupposed to be descended from the bison. ThePodolian or Hungarian ox, whitish gray withlong horns, and of immense height, which. Cow WITH Uneven Horns draws the heaviest loads over hun
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. Two Orphans from one another in the conformation of theirteeth and stomachs. The bovines form a sub-division of the class of horned beasts by reasonof their horns being hollow. This race {bos taitrus) must have had manyancestors. For instance, the Frisian ox is thought to be a descendant of the urns exist-ing in Csesars day, and French beeves aresupposed to be descended from the bison. ThePodolian or Hungarian ox, whitish gray withlong horns, and of immense height, which. Cow WITH Uneven Horns draws the heaviest loads over hundreds of miles,is related to the great white oxen of Italy,Spain, and Algeria mentioned by Varro. It is, however, difficult to determine at whatperiod the race appeared in Europe. We findit by the side of man in all peoples and tribesas they issued from barbarism. The Egyptiansutilized it thousands of years ago ; in fact theyhad such respect for certain bulls that theyworshiped them as gods. The Chinese andthe Japanese, civilized nations while Europewas still in its swaddling clothes, also usedISxen as draft animals thousands of years ago,and do so still, just as we do. After Europebecame civilized we find bulls or oxen serv-ing as reproducers of their species or as CATTLE 209 beasts for agricultural labor, while cows wereeverywhere valued for their milk and furnishinir amusement bulls are now used
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