DOMESTICATED MAMMALS OF THE FARM III 



work on all of them, and as many types of each of them have 

 been evolved as there were purposes to be served. Selection 

 began with dogs, and has proceeded farthest with them. 

 They have served the greatest variety of purposes. There 

 are sledging dogs for the arctic fields, and turnspits for the 

 tread mills, and bulldogs to guard the door, and shepherd dogs 

 to guard the flocks, and besides these, and more numerous 

 than all these, are the hunting dogs: for hunting was the 

 occupation that dogs could best aid. There were developed, 

 to meet the various conditions of the chase, harriers and 

 beagles and pointers and setters and terriers, etc., and, to 

 follow particular kinds of game, bloodhounds and foxhounds 

 to run by smell, and greyhounds and staghounds to run by 

 sight; and so on, dogs without end. The case is much 

 simpler with the other mammals. Horses are bred mainly 

 for speed or for draft, tho there are many kinds of horses, and 

 ponies for children's use besides. Cattle are bred mainly for 

 beef or for milk production; sheep for mutton or for wool; 

 pigs for lard or for bacon, etc. In the following study we 

 shall have opportunity to study a number of the important 

 breeds. Let us do it without forgetting that the reasons for 

 their value to us have lain and yet lie in their natural history. 



Study 14. The Domesticated Mammals of the Farm 



The object of this study is an acquaintance with the live 

 stock of the farm: their number, location, characteristics 

 and uses. 



The program of work will consist of a trip to all the barns 

 where domesticated mammals are kept: (i) a preliminary 

 examination will be made of a typical representative of 

 each species, and then (2) a more detailed examination of the 

 varieties of a few species. 



