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'and rough contain a disagreeable milky juice which grazing cattle do not like, 



jso they seldom touch it. 



I' The winds carry its seeds far and wide, swinging on beautiful balloons formed 



.of a single row of tawny, shining, bristle-like hairs, held in ftinnel form by fine, 

 hairy branchlets. In localities where it is not yet a pest, every one should make 

 it his duty to uproot every straggling specimen that is discovered, or soon it will 

 be in possession like an invading army — flaunting orange-red banners. How 

 to get rid of it is a problem not yet solved, but a rotation of well-tilled crops des- 

 troys very many if not the whole multitude. 



The grass of a meadow entirely run out by the orange hawkweed 



LESSON XXXVII 



THE PIG 



Purpose. — To impress the pupil that a pig is something more than 

 pork; that it is a sagacious animal and naturally cleanly in its habits 

 when not made prisoner by man. 



Method. — The questions in this lesson may be given to the pupils 

 a few at a time, and those who have access to farms or other places 

 where pigs are kept may make observations, which, in being given to the 



