PART V. BREEDS AND TYPES OF FARM ANIMALS 



EXERCISE 69 



WHERE OUR BREEDS OF 

 LIVE STOCK ORIGINATED 



Statement. In times when 

 men, women, and children had to 

 provide food, clothing, and shelter 

 with their own hands and had to 

 carry their burdens on their own 

 backs, the people remained un- 

 civilized. Those races of people 

 which early learned to tame wild 

 animals and make them help 

 to provide food and clothing, and 

 to bear burdens soon began to 

 establish orderly ways of living. 

 They soon had food all the 

 year around, wore clothes in- 

 stead of skins and lived in houses 

 instead of caves or trees. Also 

 those races which made the 

 greatest improvement in the use- 

 fulness of their domestic animals 

 have developed the highest forms 

 of agriculture and have been the 

 world's most intelligent farmers. 

 Much of the history of man's 

 progress from a state of savagery 

 to the highest state of civilization 

 is revealed by a study of the 

 origin of our breeds of farm 

 animals. 



Object. To fix in the pupil's 

 mind the countries which have 

 contributed most to the improve- 

 ment of the breeds of live stock 

 that are common in the United 

 States. 



Materials. Outline maps of 

 the world and text material 

 showing where each of our com- 

 mon breeds of farm animals 

 originated. 



