CHAPTER II 
DOMESTICATED RACES ORIGINATED IN THE WILD 
Domesticated races vary - Creation not yet finished - Most domesticated races 
have close relatives in the wild- Domesticated species existed first in the 
wild. Species change in domestication - Improvement sometimes slight - 
Domestication a gradual process: How the history of domestication is 
known - Not always able to identify the original . Distinction between 
feral and wild 
Whence came our domesticated animals and our cultivated 
plants? Were our horses, our cattle, our sheep, and our swine 
created in the beginning as they are to-day, or have they de- 
scended from other, older, and somewhat different races? 
Were they made especially for our benefit, or have we drafted 
them into our service? 
Were our wheat, our corn, our clover and alfalfa, our apples 
and vegetables, created for the particular delectation of man, 
or have they been discovered and appropriated by him to meet 
his special needs ? 
Were they always as they are now in form and color and 
quality, or have they been developed from preéxisting species 
and somewhat changed in the process? 
Domesticated races vary. The last question is easiest an- 
swered. The domesticated races were not always what they 
‘are to-day, for many have arisen within recent times and some 
within the recollection of men yet living. For example, the 
Shorthorn cattle were developed in England within the last 
hundred and fifty years, and the trotting horse is an American 
product developed since the Civil War. 
The most common pig of the Mississippi valley is the Poland 
China, which developed in the Miami valley as the Chester 
White developed in Chester County, Pennsylvania. 
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