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OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS 



garments, tents, and straps. 

 In southern Russia the shep- 

 herds clothe themselves with 

 the skins of wild ponies. Cer- 

 tain of the Tartar tribes wear 

 nothing but horse skins so put 

 on that the mane floats grace- 

 tuily down their backs. But 

 we need not look so far away. 

 Many of our own gloves and 

 shoes of "Russia leather," 

 with their brilliancy and their 

 perfume, were cut out of 

 horses' hides. 



Horse grease, or rather tal- 

 low, is used in great quantities 

 for lighting purposes in Uru- 

 guay, where thirty thousand 

 place, has long been, and is still, a favorite horses are killed )-early to furnish the suppl}-. 

 drink, and from it several preparations, such Chinese ladies always keep a box of horse 

 as koumiss, are made, which are noted for their grease on their toilet tables, to use for their hair 



in place of bear's grease. 



The bones of horses 

 serve, like those of many 

 other animals, to make 

 soap. Thus the horse, so 

 useful during his lifetime, 

 does not cease to be so, in 

 other ways, after death. 

 The noble animal, favorite 

 and companion of our great 

 historic heroes, the helper 

 and support of the laborer, 

 A .Stk.wv B.\rH the link of so manv of our 



Interior of .a Ridinc; School St.akle 



tonic properties. If we take 

 a map and mark the fron- 

 tiers within which mare's 

 milk, goat's milk, camel's 

 milk, and cow's milk are 

 drunk, we shall find that 

 the territory of the con- 

 sumers of mare's milk is 

 much the largest. 



To peoples living in a 

 state of nature the horse's 

 skin has always been very 

 useful for the making of 



Cow Ponies on a Nebr.\sk.\ R.anch 



