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late such a subject as dairying with language, spelling, reading, history,
and arithmetic,” etc.?
A few hints and the purpose of this article will have been served.
Example: Have pupils learn to spell and use in sentences such words as
aeration, pasteurize, bacteria, lactic acid, rennet, protein, buttermilk,
seperator, temperature, whey, albumen, fermentation, contamination,
rancidity, alveoli, ash, carton, creamery, imitation, renovated, washy,
casein, centrifugal, colostrum, gravity, globules, lobule, lactometer,
dilution, thermometer, utensil, udder, veins, etc. This list could be
lengthened indefinitely as the ramifications of the sebject suggests.
For primary grades the simpler words about the home and the barn and
the farm should be used. All pupils have excess to the dictionary and
elementary books on agriculture to assist them in using the words in
their proper application to the subject.
Such processes as the manufacture of butter, the manufacture of
cheese, pasteurization of milk, the process of preparing milk for city
trade, the production of certified mik, etc., will furnish abundant ma­
terial for research and subjects for short articles to be written upon
them. Do not be satisfied with a few hazy sentences presented upon
such subjects for the real value to the pupil comes from the effort and
thought required to gather the information and to present it in good
literary form.
The dairy cow persued historically will lead the pupil to an intimate
acquaintance with the history of every civilized people since the time
“ Abraham put before his guests butter, milk, and a dressed calf.” and
“ Jesse sent David to the camp of the army of Israel with ten small
cheese.” Look at the wonderful history of Holland and you will find
it to be the history of the Holstein cow where she has been pure bred for
at least two thousand years.
Likewise, the Jersey, Guernsey, Durham. Hereford, Brown Swiss
etc., will each bring the pupil in touch with delightfully interestingly
facts and people as you trace them to their native lands.
Then think of the interesting geography lessons to come in the de
scriptions of the native homes of the various breeds, of the quaint cus­
toms of the people, of their modes of life, etc. Then the study of the
climates of the various lands and the discovery of other reasons why
they were celebrated for their fine dairy cattle.
In arithmetic the number of problems are endless. Example: Find
the cost to keep a cow for one year when grain is worth $30 per ton,
hay $12 per ton, ensilage, $3 per ton in the silo - when the daily ration
is nine pounds of grain, forty pounds of silage and 15 lbs of hay. These
problems may be varied according to the locality and the variation in
prices and feeding ration. Example: From Oct. 1, 1906, to Oct. 1,