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NATURE STUDY BY GRADES 



A TYPICAL BEEF Cow 



taining cheese may be attached to the card by the time the 

 work reaches this point. A drawing of a cow by one of the 

 pupils may head the chart. 



The above-mentioned products are the chief products of 

 the living animal, but the cow furnishes us also with meat 



and tallow. Visit 

 a meat market, 

 and note how a 

 beef is dressed and 

 cut up for sale. 

 Note the various 

 cuts and their rela- 

 tive prices. Men- 

 tion some of the 

 forms in which 

 meat is sold, e.g. 

 fresh, corned, dried, sausage, bologna, etc. Add to the chart 

 a small bottle of chipped beef. In like manner, study suet 

 and tallow and their uses. Tell about the old-fashioned 

 tallow candle, and how it was made. Make some by " dip- 

 ping," if there are no candle molds to be had. Attach in a 

 suitable place a candle to the chart. 



Discuss the uses to the cow of her horns; also the uses to 

 which man has put them. Combs, buttons, handles of vari- 

 ous kinds, and other things are made of horn. Place one of 

 these articles, or a horn, upon the chart. 



In like manner explain the many uses of the bones and 

 the things made from them, adding a bone button or similar 

 object to the chart. Neat's-foot oil, glue, rennet-tablets, and 

 gelatine may each in turn be discussed, and a sample in bottles 

 added to the many other useful things obtained from the 

 cow. If the teacher cannot obtain all the things mentioned, 



