. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness; tr. from the French of Gos. De Voogt, by Katharine P. Wormeley;. Domestic animals. 194 OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS a prey to suffering-, death, and putrefaction, existing at the period of the lake villages of We might understand such cruelt}' in some Switzerland were precisely the same as those poor creature trying to earn a living, but it of to-day, which proves that until now man ought never to enter the minds of educated has not thought it worth while to improve this men, or at least those who regard themselves animal species. Ther
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness; tr. from the French of Gos. De Voogt, by Katharine P. Wormeley;. Domestic animals. 194 OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS a prey to suffering-, death, and putrefaction, existing at the period of the lake villages of We might understand such cruelt}' in some Switzerland were precisely the same as those poor creature trying to earn a living, but it of to-day, which proves that until now man ought never to enter the minds of educated has not thought it worth while to improve this men, or at least those who regard themselves animal species. There is little or no difference as such. We must, however, add that the between the exteriors of the Norwegian, Swiss, chamois living on the highest, wildest, and Spanish, and Grecian goats. Everywhere we most inaccessible rocks has often sold his life find them with or without horns, and with long dear at the cost of that of many a hunter. or short hair, striped with many discordant. Biu.( Goats with Horns The chamois mates successful])' with the colors domestic goat, and is easih' tamed; but its pas- sion for climbing never dies, and its progeny inherit it. IV. The Domhstic Go,\t Up to the present time little ])ains have )-ellow, red, white, reddish brown, gray, and black. Goats of a single color are rarely found, unless they ha\"e come through' the hands f)f breeders who have bred them with that idea in view. The S7i'!ss goat of ilw Saiiicu is the chief species of central Europe. It comes from been taken to di\'ide tlie tamed goats into the valleys of the Sarnen and the Simmen, species, but of late ]iersons are beginning and is characterized b)- its color, which is more and more to distinguish and impro\'e the wholly white, by the absence of horns, and different breeds. It is a fact that the goats especially by its great production of milk. Digitized by IVIicrosoft®. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enha
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