21308 Turkeys In The Barnyard

"Gobble, gobble, gobble." What is all the noise about? Why, Mr. Turkey Gobbler has just been fed some corn. He is spreading his tail to show how handsome he is.

Turkeys are fine to eat. Some people have them for their Thanksgiving dinners. It is easier to eat them than to raise them. They cannot be kept in a yard like hens. They must wander about the fields. There they like to pick up grasshoppers and other insects. If they wander too far, perhaps a fox will get them. Skunks like turkey meat, too, and sometimes steal turkeys at night. Wet grass is not good for little turkeys. Many of the flock catch cold and die before they are large.

When the Pilgrims came to this country from England, there were wild turkey all about. The Pilgrims had wild turkey for the first Thanksgiving feast. Now wild turkeys are found mostly in the South. They are bronze in color.
You have seen men drive cows. Sixty or seventy years ago, men used to drive flocks of turkey from Canada down to Boston. It is harder than driving cows. When night came, the turkeys would not go a step farther. They knew it was bedtime. They would fly into trees or up on stone walls or fences to roost for the night.

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7284 Feeding Pigeons In Front of St. Markís, Venice, Italy

In the city of Venice there is a beautiful church called St. Markís. This is not like the churches in our country, but far older and more beautiful. About this church live many pigeons or doves. People who go there like to feed them. They buy corn from a man who stays near. When the doves see this there is a great whirring of wings. They are used to being fed. They are not afraid. They fly about oneís head and light on oneís shoulder. It is pretty to see them.

Many years ago, before there were trains or telegraphs or telephones, a brave man of Venice set out for war. He took with him some carrier pigeons. They were to fly back to Venice carrying messages, if this brave man won his battles. How eagerly the people of Venice watched for these pigeons! When at last they came flying down, the whole city went wild with joy. The battles were won! On the next Palm Sunday the pigeons were blessed in the church and set free in front of St. Markís. They made their homes about the church. For many years after this the city of Venice paid for food, which was given to the pigeons every day. They were so grateful to the birds that brought the good news to them.

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12557 An Elephant In Burma, India

Of course you have seen elephants at the zoo or circus. Did you ever wish you had one for a pet? What a big room he would need! How much hay he would eat! How much water you would have to carry him!

Perhaps the man in the picture owns this elephant. Perhaps he is hired to drive for the owner. Anyway, you can see he and the elephant are friends. The stick he holds in his hand has no sharp-pointed iron prong on it. Many drivers use these to prod their elephants.

Have you seen elephants in a circus trained to do tricks? In Burma, where this elephant lives, they are trained to work. Some are harnessed and draw plows. Some have little houses fastened on their backs and carry tiger hunters in these. Some are used by postmen and travel through thick jungles. They swim deep rivers as easily as you can wade across a brook. Others are trained to carry heavy timbers and blocks of wood in lumber yards. Teakwood grows in India. It is very tough and heavy. This elephant has learned to bend his fore knees, put his tusks under the block and wrap his trunk over the top. Then he can lift it and pile it where he is told.

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9651 A Cow At Milking Time

Do you think this picture was taken on a big dairy farm? Is this the way cows are milked on a big dairy farm (Look at picture Number 174.) Which milk would be cleaner?

Can you see how the man finds out where the cow is, when it is time to milk her? What do you call that bell?

What does this cow have to eat? What do you call the fields where the cows graze? Do you think the cows eat the grass at noon when it is all dry and hot? They eat the grass early in the morning and in the evening. They store it up in an extra stomach. Then in the hot part of the day they go to a shady, cool place. The food in the cowís extra stomach comes back up to her mouth in balls. She chews this up and it goes down to her real stomach to be made into milk. That is when we say the cow is ìchewing her cud.î

Why is the cat waiting there? Would you like to drink milk just after it has come from the cow? Do you think it would be cool and nice?

Look at pictures Number 129, 139, and 160 to see what may happen to this milk.

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18269 Teaching A Calf To Drink Milk From A Pail

Babies have many things to learn. Have you a baby brother or sister? What are some of the things your baby must learn to do? Can your baby drink milk out of a cup?

What kind of a baby is this one? When this baby calf was very new, it got milk from the mother cow. Now it must learn to drink milk out of a bucket. That is hard for a calf to do. Can you tell why?

The lady is going to teach the calf to drink milk from a bucket. Why doesnít she hold up the bucket and let the calf drink from it? Why does she let the calf suck her fingers, instead?

She puts milk on her fingers. Each time she holds her fingers down nearer the bucket. Soon she can put her fingers right down into the milk. When the calf begins to drink milk right from the bucket, she can take her fingers away.

Do you think the calf can learn to drink from the bucket the first time it tries? If she tries this plan each feeding time, the calf will soon learn to drink dinner from the pail.

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