Nature Study Excursion to dairy with fourth, fifth and sixth grade children. 

 Los Angeles, Calif. 



Stalking the Cow. 



Elizabeth Prayer Burnell, A. M. 



Assistant Supervisor of Nature Study, Los Angeles City Schools, 



Stalking wild game is royal sport. The unfamiliarity of the 

 cow has made her equally exciting quarry for many a child of 

 the apartm.ent house district. It is not exceptional to find city 

 children who know less of a cow than of an elephant. That will 

 no longer be applicable to Los Angeles children, however. The 

 cows have been star actors, and m.ovies at that, in the educational 

 system, of the city for the m.onth of January. Serene bossys 

 on their way hom.e from, pasture have been formally saluted by 

 inquisitive youngsters who have discovered a new interest in 

 heel joints and elbows. Fathers have taken clamouring children 

 to neighboring lots to see how a cow walks. "Does she move her 

 right hand and left foot together or her right hand and right foot?" 



The Nature Study Department in the Los Angeles City schools, 

 under the directorship of Dr. Charles Lincoln Edwards, co- 

 operate with various departm.ents of the city such as the parks, 



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