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never used the milk of the sheep for food. Sheep are raised 

 only for meat and wool. In the United States, goat's milk 

 is not much used for food, but in Europe it is used extensively, 

 especially in mountainous regions. The goat requires less 

 attention than the cow, and scrambles over steep slopes and 

 lives well on land too poor for the cow. 



Cows are valuable for their meat as well as for their milk, 

 but good milch cows are not always good meat cows. Cattle- 



FIG. 328. Loading beef for export. 



men raise two breeds of cows, a breed which gives unusually 

 good milk, and a breed which furnishes unusually good meat 

 but poorer and less abundant milk. Some of the choicest cuts 

 of meat, such as tenderloin, sirloin, porterhouse, come from the 

 cow, and also some of the cheaper but equally nutritious cuts, 

 such as chuck, rump, and neck (Fig. 328). 



Practically every part of the cow is valuable; those parts 

 which cannot be used for meat, such as hide, hoofs, horns, hairs, 



