Show EARLY USE OF OXEN they preceded tile borso in agricultural babor In insor jor the help which our bovine servants render us by the power which they exert in traction as in drawing plows sleds or wagons appears to have hare been first tendered rendered ion long after their introduce notion to the ways of man the first of these uses in which the drawing strength of these animals was made serviceable appears to haru lave been in in tile the work of plot plowing ling in primitive lays days and with primitive mitie tools hand delving was a sore task the inventive genius who first contrived to overturn the earth by means of the forked limb of a tree shaped in the semblance of a plow and drawn by oxen be began an a great revolution in the art of agriculture to this unknown genius we vve may award a place among the benefactors of mankind quite as distinguished as that which is occupied by the equally unknown inventors of th the arts of making fires or of smelling smelting sm sui elting ores after the experience with the strength of oxen had been won from the work of plowing it was easy to pass to tile the other grades of their employment where they were made to draw carri carriages carri aces aLres next after the contribution which the kindred of the bulls have made strength we must set that which has come from their milk although thi aliis s small substance can be obtained in small quantities from several other domesticated animals atilIna ls tile species of tile the genus genas los alone have yielded it iu in sufficient quantities greatly to affect the development of man it is difficult to mea measure su r C the importance of the addition to tilt the diet both of savage aud civilized poo pie which milk affords it is a fact vi ell known to physiologists that in its simple form this substance is a complete food capable when taken alone of sustaining life and insuring a full development of the body |