Domesticated animals and plants; a brief treatise upon the origin and development of domesticated races, with special reference to the methods of improvement (1910) (20369541863)

Title: Domesticated animals and plants; a brief treatise upon the origin and development of domesticated races, with special reference to the methods of improvement
Identifier: domesticatedan00dave (find matches)
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Davenport, E. (Eugene), 1856-1941
Subjects: Breeding; Domestic animals; Plants, Cultivated; Animals, Domestic; Breeding; Plants
Publisher: Boston, New York : Ginn and company
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library



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DOMESTICATED RACES 13 Any zoological garden or traveling menagerie will show a great variety of animals clearly catlike, and almost every moun- tainous countr)^ has its native sheep of some kind. The zebra and the quagga of the circus suggest the horse, and the turkey of the New England forests not only resembles our great Thanksgiving bird, but is known to be its direct progenitor.^
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Fig. 3. The timber wolf a wild relative of the domestic dog. Specimens at the National Park, Washington, D.C. Courtesy of the Superintendent Among plants we have wild oats, timothy, and many kinds of clover ; indeed, most of our pasture grasses are truly wild. We have also wild strawberries, blackberries, and raspberries, wild onions, parsnips, and carrots, and whichever way we turn the domesticated animal and plant is found to have a g>'psy relative in the wild. 1 For further data on the turkey, see Part II, Chapter XVII.