Domesticated animals and plants; a Domesticated animals and plants; a brief treatise upon the origin and development of domesticated races, with special reference to the methods of improvement domesticatedanim00dave Year: 1910 6 DOMESTICA'IKI) ANIMALS AND PLANTS cultivated forests, or from alcohol produced by the starchy grains and vegetibles. In early days the fat of animals or of plants served for illumi- nation, but with petroleum they jxissed, probably forever, out of use, and it is more than likely that in respect to illumination we shall be independent of iioth animals and plants. Depe
Domesticated animals and plants; a Domesticated animals and plants; a brief treatise upon the origin and development of domesticated races, with special reference to the methods of improvement domesticatedanim00dave Year: 1910 6 DOMESTICA'IKI) ANIMALS AND PLANTS cultivated forests, or from alcohol produced by the starchy grains and vegetibles. In early days the fat of animals or of plants served for illumi- nation, but with petroleum they jxissed, probably forever, out of use, and it is more than likely that in respect to illumination we shall be independent of iioth animals and plants. Dependence of man upon animal labor. To harness the ani- mals and put them to work is one of the ])iimitive instincts of Fig. I. 'I'lic laiiiiius I'cichcrun stalliuii Hrilliant After a painting by the great animal artist Rosa Bonheur man, and a book would be recjuired even to outline the thou- sand ways in which man has been helped by his dumb com- panions, and in which his future happiness inevitably rests upon their labors. It is the reindeer and the dog that make the jjolar regions habitable. It was the ox that traveled the plains and developed the Pacific coast in the days of '49. The last of the buffalo gave their flesh to feed the workmen that laid the Union Pacific — that first mechanical bond between tlie Ivist and the West.
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