CHAPTER II 

 CATTLE 



More Useful Than Horses. Horses are a great 

 help to man, but we could get along without them 

 better than without cattle. Cattle supply us with 

 meat, leather, and milk; and they may also be yoked 

 up for work. 



Where Cattle Came From. Cattle have come 

 down to us from a queer animal of the cave man's 

 time, called the urns. In those far-off days there 

 was also a kind of wild cattle. Some say the herds 

 of wild cattle mixed with herds of the urus, and 

 this mixture formed the cattle that we have. But 

 nobody 'is very sure about this. We know that the 

 cave man hunted and killed wild cattle for meat. 



Taming the Wild Cattle. A long time after the 

 cave man a higher race of men lived in villages built 

 out over the edge of lakes in Switzerland. These 

 people, called the Swiss lake-dwellers, seem to have 

 tamed the cow. How do you think they did it? 

 They probably kept cows at first for milk only. 

 Instead of hunting all the time for food, the people 

 began to give some time to their cattle and so 

 became herders. 



Churning the First Butter. Then a wonderful dis- 

 covery was made by some one, and that was how to 

 make butter from milk. Probably some lake-dweller 



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