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the zoos and the museums. Nature Study bulletins have been 

 scheduled to synchronize with city wide interests such as the 

 stock shows and the pigeon shows and the children have been 

 given a place among the exhibitors at the city Dog Show. For 

 the study of the cow during January the Milk Inspection De- 

 partment of the city has given helpful and enthusiastic support 

 in preparing a list of the dairies of the city with reference to 

 school excursions. 



Dairy owners have been helpful and cordial in explaining the 

 use of equipment and in showing school groups around the dairies. 

 A regular tour of inspection has included the milking, the strain- 

 ing and cooling of the milk, and the bottling. The children 

 have had vivid demonstrations of the care and expense necessary 

 to fulfil the requirements for certified and guaranteed milk. 



Eighty-five children gathered around a corral to watch the 

 cows. Mischievous boys found greater excitement in seeing 

 who could first win over the confidence of timid calves than in 

 putting them to fiight with noisy teasing. Here was a new in- 

 centive for being quiet in order to encourage the cattle who were 

 slow to accept the advance of their visitors. For this was a Nature 

 Study Excursion and not a picnic. Tradition had established 

 the requirements which they would be expected to meet. With 

 notebooks and pencils the young reporters prepared to explain 

 their observations to their school-mates and their families at 

 home. 



Jersey, Holstein, Guernsey, Durham, and Ayrshire cattle 

 have been added to the list of friends of the children of the city. 

 Even fastidious little girls have put their fingers inside the mouths 

 of the calves in their interest to feel the lower incisors and the 

 bare gums above. Two tame cows near a school peaceably sub- 

 mitted to inspection and to having their m.ouths opened by 

 boys of the school group. 



Ask a Los Angeles child why teeth are interesting and you will 

 start him on a long story which will include the flesheaters of whicli 

 he will assure you the dog is one, and the grasseaters of wJiich 

 he has studied the horse and the cow. Several thousand children 

 know more about teeth of horses and cows than is known l)y m.an>' 

 of their elders. 



Picture exhibits have been used to help visualize ilic animal 

 relationships. These have proved a splendid asset, esj)eciall>' 



