Children's own library . hered food,retains it for some hours, and then passes it back intothe mouth to be remasticated. The Ox is spread widely over the earth, scarcely anycountry being without its peculiar breed. In this coun-try, where it is our most useful domesticated animal,there are many breeds. Each of these breeds has itspeculiar value: some fatten easily, and are kept espe-cially for the butcher; others give milk, and are valu-able for the dairy. The best dairy cow is the Alderney,a small, short-horned animal, furnishing exceedinglyrich milk. Oxen are often used to draw wagons, or to
Children's own library . hered food,retains it for some hours, and then passes it back intothe mouth to be remasticated. The Ox is spread widely over the earth, scarcely anycountry being without its peculiar breed. In this coun-try, where it is our most useful domesticated animal,there are many breeds. Each of these breeds has itspeculiar value: some fatten easily, and are kept espe-cially for the butcher; others give milk, and are valu-able for the dairy. The best dairy cow is the Alderney,a small, short-horned animal, furnishing exceedinglyrich milk. Oxen are often used to draw wagons, or to drag theplough. They are not so strong as horses, and theirmovements are much slower. Every part of the Ox is of value. We eat his flesh,we wear shoes soled with his skin, our candles aremade from his fat, our tables are joined with gluemade from his hoofs, his hair is mixed with the mortar 72 woods natural history of our walls, his horns are made into combs, knife -handles, drinking cups, etc. ; his bones are used as a. THE AMERICAN BISON cheap substitute for ivory, and soup is made from his tail. The young Ox is called a calf, and is quite as usefulin its way as the full-grown Ox. The flesh is termed WOODS NATURAL HISTORY 73 veal, and by many preferred to the flesh of the Ox orCow, which is called beef; jelly is made from its feet.:The stomach is salted and dried, and is named is made by soaking a piece of rennet in water,and pouring it into a vessel of milk. The milk soonforms a curd, which is placed in a press, and the waterysubstance, called whey, squeezed from it. The curd iscolored and salted, and is then cheese. The Cape Buffalo is a native of South Africa. It isferocious and cunning, often lurking among the treesuntil an unsuspecting traveller approaches, and thenrushing on him and destroying him. The ferociouscreature is not content with killing its victim, butstands over him mangling him with its horns, andstamping on him with its feet. The Bison, or B
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