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Rural School Leaflet 



In order to introduce the study of the cow successfully, the teacher 

 should use every opportunity to become acquainted with the details of 

 dairy work. There are excellent opportunities to use the dairy problems 

 in the arithmetic and bookkeeping classes. Children who become interested 

 in the business side of dairy farming will be a help and inspiration to their 

 parents and will interest the parents in the school in a spirit of coopera- 

 tion with the boys and girls and the teacher. 



III. THE BEEF TYPE AND THE DAIRY TYPE 



H. H. Wing 



Cattle are kept for two main purposes: for the production of milk 

 and for the production of beef. These two purposes make quite differ- 





Tlie beef lype 



cnt demands on the vital energies of the animal. For this reason, by 

 selection through many generations of those animals, on the one hand, 

 that are best developed for meat production, and of those, on the other 

 hand, that give the largest amount of milk, there have arisen two types 

 more or less distinct in form and in certain other characters, one known 

 as the " beef " form or type, and the other known as the " milk " form 

 or type. 



It must not be supposed that these two types are entirely distinct 

 or separate, for the cows of the beef type always give some milk, and 

 animals of the dairy type will furnish beef of reasonably good quality 

 when properly fattened. Then, too, while the types may be readily 



