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REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



Animals. 



Animal for detailed study: The dog. 



Directions. — This work on animals can be taken uii at any season, but gen- 

 erally It will be found more satisfactory to begin it early in the year and carry 

 it along with the study of birds. 



m. Poems, stories, and pictures: Emerson's Mountain and Squirrel, Phoebe Cary's That Calf, Scott's 

 Helvellyn, Brown'sRaband his Friends, Ouida's Dog of Flanders; picture — Douglas's Mother and 

 Daughter. 

 Note. — Owing to the economic value of the cow, this animal is introduced in the fourth grade, as the hen 

 Is In the study of birds. 



