East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1963-05-30
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E1 RuNI CALEDONIA
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vM@ PROSPECT
Space Flight Is Second
To Buttercup> BIuebeU

! grain, 40 pounds of silage, and
enough water to fill 400
! glasses. The fourth graders
took these figures and others,
and did arithmetic problems
with them: 5000 quarts of
milk produced in a year makes
% quarts a day, or five and
one half gallons in jugs in
stores. They also figured
out that Bluebell weighed as
much as five children, and
Buttercup as much as II chill
dren, which is more than half
Of a class.
We Should Hire Them
Mayfair's fifth and sixth
graders assumed the role of
reporters for the cow-and-calf
story, and tried to get as much
information about them and
their visit to the school into a
short page of writing as they
could. These older children
were told that Buttercup might
someday become hamburger.
a fact which the smaller ones
might not have appreciated.
But the older girls made
Iunrecorded.
little show Of being frightened
when the COW and her calf
turned their heads their way,
as if they were planning to
start after them; but this didn't
bother the boys one bit.
To climax Mayfair's Cow
Day, television camera was
taking pictures of this entire
bovine visit, and portions of it
were shown on the TV news
program that evening.
Much Interest
1t was Caledonia's younger
children, the primary grades,
that showed the most interest
in the COW and her calf when
they came there. The boys mad
girls wanted to know why a
cow has four stomachs, and
what on earth she does with
so many of them Zone obvious
answer was found out to be
wrong); why the farmer that
owns the cow has put a metal
clip on her ear, and why cows
chew their food so long before
finally swallowing it for good.
They also wanted to know
how the various dairy products
such as butter and cheese were
made from the original milk,
and how intelligent COW was,
if that term could indeed be
applied to her. These and other
questions were answered by
the farmer and the Dairy Coun-
ell lady who accompanied the
and who arranged for
the youngsters to come close
enough to them to stroke their
smooth hair.
Demonstrate Milking
One thing that impressed the
Prospect children who saw
Buttercup and Bluebell was the
fact that two methods Of milk
ing are now being employed:
hand and machine milking. The
cows owner demonstrated both
methods for them. Although it
was raining when the animals
were being exhibited on the +
Prospect playground, nobody
seemed to mind, least of all
Buttercup and Bluebell; as far
as the boys and girls were con-
cerned, so many Of them had
never seen real live animals
IF this sort that the novelty Of +
the experience almost made
them forget the rain.
Experienced Troupers
Superior was the last Of the
six schools visited by the Dairy
Council truck. By this time
Buttercup and Bluebell had be-
come experienced troupers, and
decided that they liked to be
petted; so they nudged up to
the children-once again, the
pupils of the school
and practically asked to be
stroked and made over.
The children asked how many
babies Buttercup had had, and
how long it would be before
had babies. They asked
many questions about Butter
cups horns, large size, and
configuration in general, and
were most interested in watch
ing her being milked. One I
fifty Superior children l
walked along past the cow and t
her calf, and almost all Of
them took the opportunity Of =
petting them a little. We could
almost say that by that time
the bovine troupers had be-
come "hams", if we didn't
know that that term scarcely
applies to animals Of that
species.
Seen One, Seen Them All 1
Although the Rozelle first 4,
graders also saw the COWS
which we have just been talk
ing about, they weren't as
overawed by them as they
would have been if they hadn't .,
recently come back from trip
TO the Cleveland Zoo. For there
was a calf there also, in the
section, along with
the young of many other do
mestic and exotic animals.
They also saw many Of the
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