CHAPTER XV 



REASONS FOR ANIMAL 

 HUSBANDRY 



ANIMAL products in the United States 

 nearly equal in value those of all other 

 farm products. Those soil supplies which 

 constitute the food of domestic animals are 

 not implied. Practically every farm in the 

 United States keeps domestic animals, 

 either for their labor or their products, and 

 nearly every household in both city and 

 country keeps one or more animals for com- 

 panionship. The domestication of animals 

 has been a prime factor in the civilization 

 of the human race by furnishing man with 

 motive force by which he has been able to 

 increase his productive power; by giving 

 him a larger, better and more regular food 

 supply; and by furnishing the materials for 

 clothing, making it possible for him to in- 

 habit temperate and even arctic climates. 

 Animals have not been less important in 

 advancing the spiritual welfare of the 

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