. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. ingle occupation seems to absorb her thoughts,— thatof flicking off with her tail the flies that tormenther as she browses the grass or chews the is an essential thing with her,though she does it when half asleep ; essen-tial, that is, for the stomach of all ruminants,which is composed of four parts, — the rumen,the irticuhnii, the omasum, and the being triturated and partly digested inthe first stomach, or rumen, the insufficientlydigested food is returned to the oesophagusand thence into the mo
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. ingle occupation seems to absorb her thoughts,— thatof flicking off with her tail the flies that tormenther as she browses the grass or chews the is an essential thing with her,though she does it when half asleep ; essen-tial, that is, for the stomach of all ruminants,which is composed of four parts, — the rumen,the irticuhnii, the omasum, and the being triturated and partly digested inthe first stomach, or rumen, the insufficientlydigested food is returned to the oesophagusand thence into the mouth, where it is mixedwith the saliva secreted by the salivary glandsas the cow chews it, after which she passesthe cud downward to its destination. Thecow has eight teeth in the lower jaw ; theupper jaw appears to have none, and personsignorant of cattle would doubtless think so,but a connoisseur would tell them to feel the teeth. They then find a cartilaginous edgeto the upper jaw which takes the place of frontteeth, while at the two sides of the jaw at the. Ihoto C. W. Kcid back are six large and very sharp teeth. The car-tilaginous front edge is far more useful for nip-ping off the grass than a row- of teeth would the owner of milch cows the production ofmilk is naturally of the greatest importance. 2IO OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS In all the females of the bovine race the milkis separated by glands. It is composed of awhite, opaque substance in which small glob-ules of fat are floating. The two chief glands
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