AGRICULTURE FOR BEGINNERS 



SECTION XLI CATTLE 



All farm animals were once called cattle ; now this term 

 applies only to beef and dairy animals, neat cattle. 



Our improved breeds are descended from the wild ox of 

 Europe and Asia, and have attained their size and useful- 

 ness by care, food, 

 and selection. The 

 uses of cattle are 

 so familiar that we 

 need scarcely men- 

 tion them. Their 

 flesh is a part of the 

 daily food of man, 

 butter, cheese, 

 and milk are on 

 every table ; their 

 hides go to make 

 leather, and their 

 hair for plaster ; 

 their hoofs for glue ; 

 their bones for fer- 

 tilizers, ornaments, and buttons, and many other purposes. 

 There are two main classes of cattle, beef breeds and 

 dairy breeds. The principal breeds of each class are as 

 follows : 



I. Beef Breeds 



1. Aberdeen-Angus, bred in Scotland, and often called doddies. 



2. Galloways, from Scotland. 



3. Shorthorn, an English breed of cattle. 



4. Hereford, also an English breed. 



5. Sussex, from the county of Sussex, England. 



FIG. 173. A PRIZE WINNER 



