Alderney Cows.

The milk is wholesome and furnishes nourishment for young and old. The quantity of milk supplied by different cows varies greatly. Holstein cows often give as much as eight gallons of milk a day. Jersey cows yield nearly as much, while a common cow, well fed and cared for, will yield four or five gallons daily. Cows are at their best for dairy purposes when from four to eight years of From the milk butter and cheese are obtained. The age. rich thick layer which rises to the surface of milk that has It is from been standing for some time is called cream. The flesh the cream that the butter is made by churning. of the cow is the beef which is such a favorite meat. The skin of the ox and cow is used for making the soles of shoes, the horns are made into knife-handles, combs and many useful articles, the tails are used for soup and the fat is made into candles. Glue is made from the hoofs and the hair is used in mixing mortar. The ox is used to draw heavy loads. It moves with a slow, awkward gait. The Calf.

The young of the cow is called a calf. The flesh is very tender and delicious in taste and is called veal. The stomach when dried and salted forms the rennet so useful in cheese-making. From the feet of the calf, jelly is made. The Cow's Stomachs.

From another island in the English Channel we obWatch the cow as she grazes in the meadow and you tain our Alderney cows, also much valued for the rich milk they furnish. It is a fact that the milk of one Alder-will observe that she eats rapidly and does not chew her ney cow mixed with that of ten common cows will noticeably improve the quality of butter churned from the milk. Guernsey Cows.

food. Should you not think she would have indigestion? She is, however, so well provided with digestive organs that she can chew her food at a convenient time and she is only storing food for future consumption as you watch her so hurriedly nipping and swallowing the grass. She has four stomachs, one being considerably larger than the other three. This stomach acts as a storebouse and holds the food until the cow is ready to chew it. The grass passes from this receptacle into stomach number two where it is made into little balls and from this second stomach it is thrown up into the mouth and the cow chews it well before swallowing it for a second time. It then passes to the remaining two stomachs where the digestion is completed. A cow is said to be "chewing her cud" when chewing her food in this fashion and seems very happy while so engaged.

The Cow's Feet.

All animals that chew their cud have a peculiar formation of the feet. The hoofs are not solid like those of the horse but each hoof is divided so as to form two toes. They are said to be cleft-hoofed.

Antiquity of the Cow.

That the cow was valued as a domestic animal in very early ages is evident from the writings of Moses in the Bible. It was a golden calf that the Israelites made and worshiped at Mount Sinai.

I. OBJECT.

JANGVAGE

REPRODUCTION STORIES.

HOW TO USE THEM.

1. Furnishes an excellent opportunity for conversation.

read.

2. Requires pupils to gather the thought from what they read or hear 3. As a written exercise furnishes a good opportunity to teach punctu

ation, capitalization and spelling.

II. METHOD.

1. Story may be read aloud to the class by the teacher or by one of the pupils who is a good reader.

2. Story may be passed from pupil to pupil and read silently.

3. Teacher may question pupils about the story. This is a good exercise for younger pupils.

4. Each pupil may repeat the story orally from memory.

5. The story may be reproduced in writing.

making clothing for a poor family that had lost everything in a fire.

As the little women were sewing on their dollies' dresses, and hats, and beautiful aprons, Alice suddenly said, "Do you suppose their dolls were burned?"

"Yes," said Nan, "for mamma said, 'everything.""

"Oh, how dreadful!" said Grace, "just think what if our dolls were burned up!"

And then they all thought a few minutes and worked in silence. Then looking up they caught each other's eyes, and each saw her own thought there, too, and with one consent they all three went over to the row of dolls lying on the table.

"As you would be done by," Nan said, and picked up the prettiest doll of them all.

"Yes," said Grace, though her lip trembled.

And they took the best hat, and best apron, and best dress, thinking, "As you would be done by." all the time, and quietly tiptoed out into the hall and laid the dolly safe

6. The difficult words may be placed on the board for a spelling lesson among the other things in the big box.

or to assist pupils in reproducing the story.

7. The story may be written on the blackboard and the pupils required to copy it. This will teach something of capitalization and punctuation.

Beauty Out of Ugliness.

A lady who in her girlhood was discouraged by her lack of beauty, but lived to become a leader of society, with hosts of sincere and loving friends, told the following story of the incident which gave her hope and inspired her to usefulness: "If I have been able to accomplish anything in life it is due to the words spoken to me in the right season, when I was a child, by an old teacher.

"I was the only homely, awkward girl in a class of exceptionally pretty ones, and being also dull at my books, became the butt of the school. I fell into a morose, despairing state, gave up study, withdrew into myself, and grew daily more bitter and vindictive.

"One day the French teacher, a gray-haired old woman, with keen eyes and a kind smile, found me crying.

'Oh

"What is the matter, my child?' she asked. madame, I am so ugly!' I sobbed out. She soothed me,

but did not contradict me. Presently she took me into her room, and after amusing me for some time, said, 'I have a present for you,' handing me a scaly, coarse lump

covered with earth.

'It is round and brown as you.

Ugly, did you say? Very well. We will call it by your name then. It is you! Now, you shall plant it, and water it, and give it sun for a week or two.' I planted it, and watched it carefully; the green leaves came first, and at last the golden Japanese lily, the first I had ever seen. Madame came to share my delight. 'Ah,' she said, significantly, 'who would believe so much beauty and fragrance were shut up in that little, rough, ugly thing? But it took heart when it came into the sun.' It was the first time that it ever occurred to me that in spite of my ugly face, I, too, might be able to win friends, and to make myself beloved in the world."-Christian Herald.

As You Would Be Done By.

Three little girls, Nan, Alice and Grace, were having a little sewing society of their own, says the Golden Rule, in the room next to the "big society " where the ladies were

Bertie's Chicken.

Bertie is a bright, honest boy, nearly ten years old, and is always willing to help his father all he can. One day his father gave him some fowls, for his own, if he would take good care of them. Bertie promised to do so, and was very happy when one hen hatched a nice brood of chickens for him. A hungry hawk stole one of the chickens and flew away with it to his nest. Bertie's father was working near by, and, taking the gun, shot the hawk before he had killed the poor little chicken. The hawk was so frightened that he dropped the chicken into a shallow pond of water, and it waded out, and ran into the wall where Bertie found it. The hawk's sharp claws had pierced its body and it died in a few hours.

Geneva's First Day at School.

Geneva was not quite five years old when she began to go to school. She sat very still and looked at the pretty books the teacher gave her, but when asked to tell a story about them, she was afraid to say a word. She thought it was naughty to talk in school, even about her lessons. day from her First Reader. But she soon learned to do better and reads nicely each

Elmer's Pet.

Elmer is a little boy who lives on a farm where there are cows, horses and hens. His greatest pet is a fine shepherd dog, who loves his master very much and follows him wherever he goes about the farm.

A Mischievous Pet.

A gentleman owned a beautiful magpie which was a source of great amusement to him. He was a handsome bird with glossy black plumage. He was inclined to steal out of pure mischief, and when Jack, as the magpie was named, was in one of his funny moods, his master had to keep a close watch upon him or he would soon miss some of his belongings.