. Domesticated animals and plants; a brief treatise upon the origin and development of domesticated races, with special reference to the methods of improvement. Breeding; Domestic animals; Plants, Cultivated. DOMESTICATED RACES I 3 Any zoological garden or traveling menagerie will show a great variety of animals clearly catlike, and almost every moun- tainous country has its native sheep of some kind. The zebra and the quagga of the circus suggest the horse, and the turkey of the New England forests not only resembles our great Thanksgiving bird, but is known to be its direct progenitor.^. Fig
. Domesticated animals and plants; a brief treatise upon the origin and development of domesticated races, with special reference to the methods of improvement. Breeding; Domestic animals; Plants, Cultivated. DOMESTICATED RACES I 3 Any zoological garden or traveling menagerie will show a great variety of animals clearly catlike, and almost every moun- tainous country has its native sheep of some kind. The zebra and the quagga of the circus suggest the horse, and the turkey of the New England forests not only resembles our great Thanksgiving bird, but is known to be its direct progenitor.^. Fig. 3. The timber wolf a wild relative ot the domestic dog. Specimens at the National Park, Washington, 1).C. Courtesy of the Superintendent Among plants we have wild oats, timothy, and many kinds of clover; indeed, most of our pasture grasses are truly wild. We have also wild strawberries, blackberries, and raspberries, wild onions, parsnips, and carrots, and whichever way we turn the domesticated animal and plant is found to have a gypsy relative in the wild. 1 For further data on the turkey, see Part II, Chapter Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Davenport, E. (Eugene), 1856-1941. Boston, New York, Ginn and company
Size: 1772px × 1410px
Photo credit: © Paul Fearn / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthordavenpor, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookyear1910
