VERSATILITY OF CATTLE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVI, Issue 23, 9 June 1906, Page 15

VERSATILITY OF CATTLE.

jCattle furnish, apart from meat, no end of articles in common use. Your toilet or laundry soap is made from their grease; the curled hair in your chair and the br is ties in your shoebrush are from their tails. As for the s|eer again, your combs are made from his horns; your tooth-brush handle and mbuth-piece of your pipe were once part of his thigh-bone; your knife handle comes, from his shin-bone: the buttons on your coat, and your wife's hairpins are from his hoofs; neat’s-foot oil represents his sinews; and the prepared food you throw to your chickens is reduced from his blood. Also, the pepsin you buy at the druggist’s is made from a pig’s stomach. The grease extracted from the wool of sheep, after slaughter, is converted into potash.