. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. 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 swaddl
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. 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. Norman Cow only in Spain for bullfights and in the southof France for the famous bull races. The bull or the draft ox, properly so called,no matter to what species he belongs, bears,as a general thing, the following type : a largehead, the nape of the neck very broad, thelegs long and sincwv, the hind quartersstrongly developed, and the muscles visibletmder a relatively thin skin. His shape islong and angular. The animal intended for the shambles is,on the contrary, square in form, with roundedoutlines. Its whole exterior shows massive-ness ; the head is narrow, the neck short andthick, the tail narrow, and the line of theback completely horizontal. Seen in front orbehind the draft ox presents a narrow, thick-set body on long legs, w-hile viewed in the samemanner the animal for butchering presents abody somewhat square-like in form, with ap-parently short legs. II. The CowThe cow {bos taunts domcsticiis) is stolidby nature and very little intelligence appearsin the big, kindly
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