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Show ONLY 25 PER CENT OF CITY'S CHILDREN HAVE EVER SEEN A LIVE COW An enormous percentage of children chil-dren reared in our large cities Is being deprived of one of the most interesting and precious experiences of childhood the opportunity to gain a knowledge of barnyard zoology. zool-ogy. "It has been discovered that 28 per cent of the Los Angeles school kids have never set eyes on a common, com-mon, ordinary cow," writes Alexandra Alexan-dra Kropotkln ln, Mbty Magazine Maga-zine this week. "Fifty per cent of them have never nev-er seen a calf. "Now the Los Angeles Board of Education is doing his best a rather rath-er poor though practically best to remedy this ignorance. A cow and two calves are being taken around each day and exhibited to the school kids. A real live cow! But what is a cow without a field or a cowshed?' |