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Title: Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness; tr. from the French of Gos. De Voogt, by Katharine P. Wormeley;
Identifier: cu31924001169204 (find matches)
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Voogt, Gos de, 1863-1918; Wormeley, Katharine Prescott; Burkett, Charles William, 1873- ed
Subjects: Domestic animals
Publisher: Boston, Ginn & Company
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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VI THE GOAT I. In Ancient Times The goat even more than the sheep is the inhabitant of mountains. This animal, closely related to the sheep, the antelope, and the deer, likes warmth and dryness, and is most at its ease in central Asia, the Himalayas,
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A Dutch Goat and other mountains of the torrid zone, where, in fact, we find its cradle, whence it has spread through Europe, and, to some extent, through America. It has prosj^ered in the countries bordering on the Mediterranean, —in northern Africa and southern Europe,—and se\'eral islands in that sea derive tlieir name fi'om it. In Corsica the number of goats is estimated at ninety thousand. Malta gives its name to a special race. But Greece and her islands can boast of more than the rest of Europe, possessing one hundred and twenty for every hundred of the population, while France, Germany, and Austria ha\'e only from four to five, the United States three, and Rus- sia only two for every hundred of their inhab- itants. According to the most trustworthy calculations there are about twenty millions of goats in Europe. There are nearly two millions in the United States. The goat has been a domestic animal from time immemorial. Like the sheep, it is easy to tame. The Greeks and the Romans, as well as the Hebrews, knew the goat as a domestic ani- mal; witness the manner in which Jacob deceived his blind father. The ancients raised these an- imals for their milk, of which they also made cheese, and for their meat, which is tooth- some when the animal is young, but uneatable when old on account of its horrible odor. The skins were used to carry drinking water bv the migratory tribes of the East; they were also used for clothing, a practice still continued by the Kirghiz of central Asia. The skin of goats is used in our day for the manufacture of kid for gloves, morocco, shagreen, and other fine leathers, and also for 190 Digitized by IVIicrosoft®

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