A country reader by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Agriculture
Publisher: New York, London, The Macmillan company
Published: 1906-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

Travelers tell us that antelopes use tliis method of attack, and hunters have been killed in this way by the big antelopes that live in the Himalaya Mountains in India.

For purposes of defense, sheep in the wild state developed great strength of neck and the hardest of hard heads. Even very young lambs often butt each other's head with very considerable force.

And if two powerful rams get together, they will charge blindly at one another, at several yards' distance. Down will go their heads, the butting of their two skulls sounding like a clap of thunder. The recoil will drive them backwards, but up they will get and attack each other ao-ain till one is the victor, or the neck of one is broken.

The Sheep of the Farm

It is said that sheep were first domesticated for the use of their milk, and when the wool had developed by domestication and selection at the expense of the goat-like hair, the skin v/as used for clothing. But it is a long step from the time when sheeps' skins were worn as clothing, to the time when the sheeps' wool alone was dyed, spun into yarn, and manufactured into cloth of many colors and patterns. In ancient times, when the whole skin was worn, it did

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