CHAPTER XXXIV 

 RELATION OF ANIMALS TO MAN 



General statement. Man is dependent upon other 

 forms of life for subsistence. So varied and numerous 

 are the relations of animals to human life and welfare 

 that members of all the various groups of animals 

 affect human interests in one way or another. To 



Photograph by Henry G. Peabody. 

 Fig. 138. Bison in Rocky Mountain Park, Canada. 

 This fine animal has been hunted for its skin and flesh until it 

 is now practically exterminated. 



realize this, we need only to refer to some of the 

 facts which concern us most directly regarding animals 

 which we use for food, such as cattle, sheep, swine, fish, 

 frogs, turtles, oysters; those which furnish clothing 



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