The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-09-03
MANS ANIMAL FRIEND.

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 arabic eonlpanion of man and Is found
 wherever the human race exists. His
 habitat is thus extended further north and further south than that of any oth-
 CT domestic animal.
 l The horse also has very wide habi-
 tat. He lives north of the Arctic circle
 onlv in the northern parts of Norway and Sweden; the northern half Of North
 America and the 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 Yakutsk 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 equatorial Africa and the southern part of India. He thrives in the dry | heat of the Sahara Desert in many of
 the oases, but he would be sought for in
 vain in tropical Africa between the lat itude of the Cape: Verde Islands and the | Tropic of Capricorn.
 1 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 abundance. Their astonishment was
 unbounded when they saw the horse | men of the Soudan on the fieetest of 1 riding animals that had ever met their gaze. I The mule is more generally distribut- ed over South America than any other of the continents, being found there everywhere excepting along a part of 1 the hot, damp coast between Pernanl- buco and Rio Janeiro; and he is also practically unknown in the Guianas. | in the Amazon Basin and in Terra del l Fuego. z .g l His home covers perhaps a fifth as much area as that of the horse. There are few mules around our Great Lakes 1 excepting along their southern shores, but from the lakes the animal extends southward to the Straits of Magellan. His home in all temperate and hot countries is practically co-extensive with that of the horse, but 1t does not extend nearly as far north as the | horses range, and he Is not found in I the deserts. s33r. .+-sx ..A.. l The range of the ass is about as large las that of the mule, but he lives in Asia, | far to the northeast of the mules habi- tat. and his habitat stretches across the continent as far as Irkutsk on Lake | BaikaI. ! The range of the tame reindeer has been widely extended in northern Asia I by the tribes that number him among l their valuable assets. and now he is in process of being widely introduced into l Alaska. Civilization, therefore, has done much to extend the habitat of this
 animal to the south, but the undomes-
 ticated reindeer has not been introduce ed into most of the great regions of the Arctic, where the wild animal roams at will. s .' ..4 $ 1 The range of cattle is practically CO., extensive with that of the horse. Cat
 tie. however. are found more extensive
 ly in very hot, damp climates than the
 horse and are entirely absent from dry | desert regions where the horse is found in considerable numbers.
 | Cattle, for example, are wholly lack l ing in the Desert of Sahara, but they graze in the southern part of India, where no horses are found. They are grown wherever grass thrives, except in some hot regions of excessive humidity,
 while the horse is important only in re- gions where grain supplements grass as
 a part of his food. 1 The hen embraces nearly all the
 world, and it's range would be as great
 as that of the dog if it extended far ! ther north and south: but it is found
 north of the Arctic Circle only in Nor
 way and Sweden, and is as yet lacking ! sx, l,rx ,f Cn11th iaa except where the Scotch have settled in Patagonia.
 1 Travellers throughout the most of Af- Irica and India and in many little known
 parts of the world can usually add chickens to their food resources with out difficulty. but there are some large l islands. like New Guinea, where the hen is not found, and more than half of Australia is entirely destitute of this animal. We seldom think of the enormous ad- G1ition which the hen makes to our re- sources. It is we'll known that our coun- try. year by year, usually produces more gold and silver than any other 1 country in the world. But the last Year Book of the Agricultural Department lgives facts to show that the value of the Feggs sold in this country has every year
 surpassed that of the gold and silver it
 has mined since 1850, except in one year.
 Nearly all our cats are found to the south of southern Iceland. and New
 Zealand is the most northern country in
 which they live. They are almost who'll
 ly lacking among the islands of the Pa
 ciffc ocean, excepting the Hawaiian group. There are plenty of them ill the
 Philippines, but they are practically un-
 known i'll the myriad islands to the east
 of that archipelago.
 The cat has been introduced into the Danish settlements of southwest Green land but as a. rule it is not domestic
 animal among barbarous peoples. The
 result is that the animal is not known in about one-third of South America, irl-
 cluding nearly the entire Amazon basin, and is never seen in at least two-thirds
 of Africa.
 It lives in Morocco, Algeria, along the
 Nile and among the whites on the east
 and west coasts; but the vast expenses
 of the Sahara and of the tropical in- terior of Africa do not know this ami mal
 The domesticated ostrich is not found
 in any of the haunts of the wild bird
 but is confined in Africa to the north land the south parts of the continent, where he is raised for his feathers. As | is we'll known there are a number of