Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1897 — They Lost Their Horns. [ARTICLE]

They Lost Their Horns.

One of the uses of thorns is to protect the plant from animals which feed on herbage. Many plants that have thorns in their wild state lose them after generations of cultivation. It is as if plants brought under the protection of man gradually laid down their arms and trusted themselves entirely to his protection.