Identifier: ourdomesticanima01voog (find matches)
Title: Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Voogt, Gos. de Wormeley, Katharine Prescott, tr Burkett, Charles William, 1873- ed
Subjects: Domestic animals
Publisher: Boston, Ginn & Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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A Dutch Sheep Farm with tillage of the soil. In the beginning thisanimal certainly could not have been found ina tame state; consequently our present wooland mutton sheep must have come from a wildancestry. But all that is lost in the night oftime. He has now become, in his domesticstate, so entirely dependent on man that hecould not exist without him. Having alwaysyielded to his masters will, gone where that Sheep are very easily acclimated, so thatwe find them in the coldest climates, and alsoin the hottest. They bear the cold of Siberia,Kamchatka, and our western plains as well asthe heat of Senegal, the Indies, and Australia,which, however, does not prevent them frompreferring a temperate climate and thriving init. They can bear a dry cold better than muchhumidity. 164
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l-iom .1 paiiuing liy K. I, ter Meulen THE SHEEP i6: As for food, they prefer the short,fine grasses, nourishing and aromaiic,which grow on dry, calcareous moun-tain slopes and rolling hillsides, not,however, disdaining those that growin saline places, for they love salt,like the goat, the deer, the ass, andthe horse. All sheep, but especiallyyoung lambs, like to climb the accliv-ities that they see about them. Theirskill in this direction they have doubt-less derived from their ancestors, thewild mountain sheep. They havenever had, however, the agilit\ ofgoats, which are native born to moun-tains and rocks. The sheep is so closely related tothe goat that there is very little dif-ference in the skeletons of the twospecies, and what there is lies chiefly in thehollow profile of the face of the goat and therounded profile of the sheep. In other respects,the sheep is unlike the goat in temperament,in character, in coat, in the shape of its horns,and in its peculiar odor, which differs in

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