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duce the most useful, we must confess that it cannot be known 

 where the original domestic come from. Probably they may appe- 

 ared from a variety of sources and as opportunity occurred. For 

 a thing may occur in one case which does not re-occur for many. 

 Those in the wild state must have gone as reclamation proceeded 

 backwards and have to content themselves with portions of the 

 World which had not been tampered with. As we see the Euro- 

 pean Bison is credited with producing native cattle, while the 

 American Bison of to day reproduces with the domestic cow. 

 Again we note that the Indian Buffalo feeds upon coarse 

 marshy plants with various Species of them in that region of the 

 Globe. Which have been and are subjected for the use of man. 

 Not only so, but each species is capable of extending its food and 

 habits as well as the nature of its form and flesh to a certain 

 point. Which may even come of them-selves or by reproducing 

 by domestic or other stock for instance we have in the Jungle ox 

 of India an animal resembling the domestic ox. Being domesticated 

 in the Northern parts of India. Leading some to assume that 

 it is bred from inter mixture with the domestic and the buffalo, 

 C u v i e r also suspects that it is allied to the original stock, if it 

 be not realy the latter of the various humped breeds of India. 

 Such conjectures arise. The grunting ox -again of Thibet diverges 

 away from the ordinary type of our wild ones. But must have a 

 peculiar attraction before the tail . could have been selected for 

 use in an army such as that of Turkey to denote the rank of its 

 officers. Whether the Cape Buffalos in any of their forms 

 can add to domestication is an important question. The M u s k 

 o x , also of the colder parts of North America, shows some points 

 worthy of domestic breeding. And it may have either receded back- 

 wards as Civilisation advanced or been taken up and improved 

 among the trophies of advance. It would appear from all we can 

 read about these that some original domestic cattle had been in an 

 unknown way placed in the hands of man for his use as head of 

 created things. So we find a place for this in modern Zoology. 

 That is to say we recognise the domestic as of an original nature. 

 We have also specimens of these wild animals in our Zoological 

 gardens. Which in some cases, what is known as parks are kept 

 where the original stock is preserved and their peculiarities exami- 

 ned. Differences of opinion also exist regarding the original sizes 

 and soforth. But this may be only confusion as arising from 

 deficient knowledge. 



Whether the sheep or the ox became first-subjected is unknown 

 but Abel son of Adam kept Sheep- Jabal is represented as the father 

 of such as dwell intents and such as have cattle. The term cattle 

 or either we assume here means our subject. But the word 

 Claims precedence at times for covering all farm animals. During 

 the whole of modern history down to the present -cattle- form an 



