. Domesticated animals, their relation to man and to his advancement in civilization;. Domestic animals. THE FLOCKS AND HERDS 109 used for saddle purposes in one way or another but for the wide use of the horse, a creature very much better adapted for carrying weight. The cloven foot of the bulls and buffaloes gives a weakness to the extremities which will quickly lead to disease in case they are forced to carry heavy loads such as the horse or ass may safely bear. The help which our bovine servants aftord us by the power which they exert in traction, as in drawing ploughs, sleds, or wagons, a
. Domesticated animals, their relation to man and to his advancement in civilization;. Domestic animals. THE FLOCKS AND HERDS 109 used for saddle purposes in one way or another but for the wide use of the horse, a creature very much better adapted for carrying weight. The cloven foot of the bulls and buffaloes gives a weakness to the extremities which will quickly lead to disease in case they are forced to carry heavy loads such as the horse or ass may safely bear. The help which our bovine servants aftord us by the power which they exert in traction, as in drawing ploughs, sleds, or wagons, appears to have been first rendered long after their in- troduction to the The first of these uses in which the draw- ins^ strenorth of these animals was made serviceable appears to have been in the w^ork of ploughing. In primitive days and with primitive tools, hand delving was a sore task. The inventive genius who first contrived to overturn the earth by means of the forked limb of a tree, shaped in the sem- blance of a plough and drawn by oxen, began a great revo- lution in the art of agriculture. To this unknown genius we may award a place among the benefactors of man- kind, quite as distinguished as that which is occupied by the equally unknown inventors of the arts of making fire or of smelting ores. After the experience with the strength of oxen had been won from the work of ploughing, it was easy. • , Ploughing in Syria. 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 Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate, 1841-1906. New York, C. Scribner's Sons
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