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How Domesticated Animals Have Benefited Their Mas- 
ters. -— The part that domestic animals have played in the 
history of the human race is very important and interesting. 
It would not be too much to say that primitive man has risen 
to a state of civilization on the back of the horse, the ox, and 
the sheep. Domestic animals exert a strong and beneficial 
influence upon their keepers. They compel habits of care and 
responsibility, for such habits are essential to success in rear- 
ing them. Moreover, man’s contact with dumb animals soon 
results in a feeling of attachment to them and develops and 
broadens his sympathies and exerts an elevating and civil- 
izing influence upon him. 
But domestic animals are also a material requisite to civili- 
zation. Working alone and unaided, man would support 
himself with difficulty. Domestic animals aid him with their 
superior physical strength; they furnish clothing for his body 
and leather for shoes ; and they are a source of his most nour- 
ishing food. It has been asserted that the native races of 
North America could not advance like those of the Old World 
because they had no domestic animals except the dog. They 
pursued even the bison of our prairies on foot and with only 
their dog. When Europeans brought them horses, they at 
once became vastly more energetic and efficient in the chase 
as well as in war. 
LivE Stock AND Farm MANAGEMENT 
In a new country the development of animal husbandry is 
always retarded by the large outlay of capital it requires, 
especially if stock is to be kept in connection with grain rais- 
ing. But gradually the farmer accumulates more and more 
animals, because the advantages are numerous and great. 
These advantages may be briefly summarized as follows: 
