Part III 

 DOMESTICATED ANIMALS 



SINCE the dawn of history we find record of the utilization of certain 

 animals, birds and reptiles, for the destruction of vermin ; therefore 

 we may briefly allude to those which have been found of most 

 essential service in this country. 



CHAPTER XI 



ANIMALS 



CAT (Felis catus). Herodotus, in his account of Egypt (lib. ii.), 

 first mentions the cat as diminishing the vermin infesting human 



B.N. 



FIG. 133. THE WILD CAT. 



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