HISTORY AND STATISTICS OF THE CATTLE INDUSTRY. 



CATTLE 



History and Statistics of the Cattle Industry. 

 A Study of Breeds. 



Care and Management of Cattle on the Farm. 



Diseases of Cattle — How to Know Them — Method of Treatment. 



Miscellaneous Information. 



(.See C()m]>lete Alplial)etical In. lex. Pages S to 12.) 

 HISTORY AND STATISTICS. 



The history of the various Iireeds of cattle with which we are familiar at the 

 present time has been traceil hack many centuries. 



It is reasonahl}- certain that horned cattle first existed in a wild state, long 

 before the dawn of recorded historx', and in the Scriptures we find mention of the 

 fact that .Tubal, the son of Lemach, living in the time of Adam, is spoken of as 

 "the fatlier of such as own cattle." 



It is a fact worth.\- of note that as man advanced beyond his primitive state, 

 he found it necessary- to domesticate certain wild animals for beasts of burden 



It is ex'ident that the subjugation of wild cattle, not only for beasts of burden, 

 out as means of bodd_\- suste.iiance, first engaged the attention of primitive man as he 

 struggled upward toward a higher plane of living. 



We find that several wild varieties of the l)0\inc tribe were originally widely 

 disseminated in Asia and Europe. 



From ancient writings and pictures we learn that these wild cattle were 

 frequently the objects of chase by primitive hunters. 



It is natural to infer that the animals in their adult state were slain for food, 

 while the young were reduced to domesticity, and l.i_\" confinement and care lost 

 their wild instincts. 



Ultimately these captive an.imals became fully domesticated, and as the herds 

 increased, and were driven from place to place m search of fresh fields and new 

 pastures, the people who made them captive iiecame nomadic in character — their 

 flocks and herds furnishing them an abundan.ce of food, and the hides affording 

 not only clothing, but shelter for the roving tribes. 



The student of racial characteristics and of humanity's upward progress from 

 sa\'agery to ci\ilization finds abunrlant e\idence of the fact that domestic animals 

 were a most important factor in that ad\ ancement. 



In primitive America we find surprising confirmation of this fact. 



In America, where no cattle existed prior to its discovery by the Europeans, 

 and where there were no animals which were easily domesticable as beasts of 

 burden, the Indians, though able folk, remained savages. 



It is a fact worthy of note that the first shepherd and the first farmer were con- 

 temporaneous. Likewise, the keeping of live stock and grain growin,g have gone 

 hand in hand down through the centuries. 



Every Celtic nation from the earliest period has raised cattle, and they have 

 been regarded by all barbarians and pagan people as the greatest of the divine 

 gifts to man. 



