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company the cow when she travelled to distant 

 glades where grass was abundant. Thus the 

 sucking calf cannot get his nutriment whenever 

 he wants it, as the young foal can, which is 

 never away from the mare. He has to wait 

 for his meals until his mother returns. But 

 this arrangement also renders it needful that 

 the cow's udder should hold a orood store of 

 milk, which slowly collects during the hours 

 when she is absent from her baby. Hence 

 the large " bag," which always distinguishes a 

 good milker ; and hence, also, the important 

 tact that a cow retains her milk until the morn- 

 ing and evening visits of the farmer or dairy- 

 maid. 



The habit of chewins: the cud amono- cattle 

 and other herbivorous animals tells a similar 

 tale. They had no time to masticate the grass 

 thoroughly when they were feeding, but were 

 obliged to get in a supply of provisions as 

 rapidly as possible, and during the hours when 

 the wild beasts were least abroad. Having got 

 in their store, they retired to their safe hiding- 

 places and lay down to ruminate at leisure. 



It is easy to see that cattle are at home in a 

 moist and wooded countrv. The feral cattle of 



