The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-12
ABOUT MANS ANIMAL FRIENDS
THE DOG AND THE HEN MOST
WIDELY DISTRIBUTED OF ALL.
ReSiOnn where Horses Can't l.lve--Niules
Most Common In South America
Range OF Cattle--Gat's Love or Civic
NzatlOn--silk Worm Circles the EARTH

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Mzation--silk Worm Circles the Earth.
The dog is the most widely distributed
OF the domestic animals. He lives In the
lowty hut Of the African savage and is the
companion Of the Greenland Eslumaux.
the most northern inhabitants Of the world.
He is in fact the inseparable companion
OF man and is found wherever the human
race exists. His habitat is thus extended
further north and further south than that
OF any other domestic animal.
The horse also has a very wide habitat.
He lives north Of the Arctic circle only in the
northern parts Of Norway and Sweden;
the northern half Of North America and tho
northern third OF Asia never see him. The
most northern part Of his habitat in Asia
is around the north shores Of the Sea OF
Ohkotsk and in the neighborhood Of va
kutsk on the Lena River.
South OF this latitude he is found nearly
everywhere except In very moist and hot
regions, like the Amazon basin and equator
rial Africa and the southern part Of India.
He thrves in the dry heat Of the Sahars
Desert in many Of the oases. but he would
be sought for In vain In tropical Africa be-
tween the latitude Of the Cape Verde Islands
and the Tropic Of Capricorn.
When explorers pushed northward from
the Congo their native servants were
greatly surprised on reaching a region near
Lake Chad to find the horse In abund-
ance. Their astonishment was unbounded
when they saw the horsemen Of the Soudan
ON the heetest Of riding animals that had
ever met their gaze. r
The mule is more generally distributed
over South America than any other Of tho
continents, being found there everywhere
excepting along a part Of the hot, damp
&C asst between Pernambuco and Rio jan
GIRO; and he Ia also practically unknown
in the Guianas, the Amazon basin and Terra
| del Fuego.
His home covers perhaps fifth as much
area as that Of the horse. There are few
mules around our Great Lakes excepting
along their southern shores, but from the
lakes the animal extends southwark to the
Straits of Magellan. His home in al tenn
perate and hot countries is practically
caextensve with that OF the horse, but it
does not extend nearly az far north as the
horses range, and he il not found in the
deserts.
The range Of the ass is about as large
as that of the mule, but he lives in Asia,
far to the northeast OF the mules habitat,
and his habitat stretches across the con-
tinent as far as Irkutsk on Lake Baika
The range OF the tame reindeer has been
widely extended in northern Asia by the
tribes that number him among their vau-
able assets and now he is In process OF
being widely introduced into Alaska
Civilization, therefore, has done much TO
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south, but the domesticated reindeer has
not been introduced into most of the great
regions of the Arctic, where the wild animal
rt ans at will.
The range Of cattle Is practically coex-
tensive with that OF the horse. Cattle.
however, are found more extensively In We y
hot, damp climates than the horse and ara
entirely absent from dry desert regions
where the horse is found In considerable
numbers
Cattle, for example, are wholly lacking in
the desert OF Sahara but they graae In the
southern Fart Of India, where no horses are
found They are grown wherever grass
thrives, EXCEPT in some hot regions OF ex-
| cessiye humidity while the horse ia i'm
portant only In regions where grain sup
plements grass as part OF his food.
The hen embraces nearly all the world,
and its range would be as great as that OF
the dog if it extended farther north ana
south; but it is found north OF the Arctic
| Circle only in Norway and Sweden, and 10
as vet lacking in the southern part OF South
America, except where the Scotch have
settled In Patagonia.
and India and in many little-known parts
Of the world can usually add chickens TO
| their food resources without difficulty;
hut there arc some large islands, like New
| Guinea. where the hen is not found, anI
more than half of Australia is destitute OF
this animal. ami.
We seldom think Of the enormous addition
| which the hen makes to our resources.
II Ia well known that our country, year by
| wear, usually produces more goio anu
silver than any other country IN the worla;
Rnt the last Year Book OF the Agricultural
DEPARTMENT gives facts 10 snow Una. s sno
value OF the eggs sold in this country mas
avery wear surpassed that Of the gold ana
silver It has mined since 1880 except ID
Nearly all our cats are found to the south
Of southern Iceland, and New Lealand Is
the most southern country IN %hiGn me-
live. Thew are almost wholly LACKING
nmonp the islands Of the Pacific ocean,
excer tinr the Hawaiian group. There are
nlerN, OF them in the Philippines, but tney
are practically unknown in the myriad
islands to the east Of that archirelago.
The cat has been introduced inlo sno
Danisb settlements cf southwest ureen-
land, but as a rule it is not domestic
animal among barharcus peoples. Inc
rneult ia that the animal ia not known IN
about onc-third Of South America, lnclud-,
ING nearly the entire Amazon basin ahd
is never seen in at least t"o-lhiros Vi
Africa. .. , ,ba
II lives in Morocco, Algeria, along me
Nile ard amcng tho whites on the east ana
wost coasts; bu' tho vast expanses OF we
sahara and of thu troncal interior OF Africa
do not know this animal.
The demonstrated ostrich If nor iounu .
in nnv Cf the haunts 81 Nv" wild BIRD Dut
is confined in Africa 10 the north and the
south rarts cf the continent where no 10
raised for his feathers. Az If We Kno"il,
there are a number Of ostrich farms IN
Arizona and southern California where
the animal il thriving . .h,,
The honey bee lives almost al over NV
world where flowers supply the nrctar
il REQUIRES, excerpt in the Amazon haaii'
in most Of which the boo is not found. Inc
lee. therefore, is distributed all over our
country. though very sparselv IN me oTy
and urfornsted regions of the west IL
Is wholly absent in the ctld ana H"s' "a
the desert parts of u" world, ,.-.-1-
The silk worm Girdl"s III" earth between
the fftinth parallel Of north latitude ana
tha 'Tropic Of CANCER. being found furth,Ir
south only in Siam ard Cochin CNira' In
other words, H. lives wherever the mulDeTI y
and other trees on which it feeds are found
in perfection. 1t belongs distinctlvey 10
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