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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



which is the Allen- 

 dale Association 

 of Chicago. The 

 farm is at Lake 

 Villa, 111. It com- 

 prises 1 20 acres of 

 good farm land. 

 The boys take care 

 of this and it is a 

 model farm. In 

 addition to caring 

 for the farm they 

 make excellent 

 progress in their 

 studies and, as the 

 bird houses indi- 

 cate, are clever 

 at various handi- 

 crafts. There are 

 five cottages, each 

 with a mother and 

 a family of twelve 

 to sixteen. Each 

 family takes care 

 of its own house, 

 r^ has its own posses- 

 sions and separate 

 rooms for its mem- 

 bers, its fireplace 

 and books and such 

 trophies as boys 

 collect and cherish . 

 The meals are 

 cooked in a central 

 kitchen and dis- 

 tributed to the 

 various families 

 who have their own table and dine 

 together. There is an admirable school 

 with able teachers, a laundry where the 

 boys help the laundress, the big kitchen 

 with the boys as assistant cooks, a manual 

 training and repair shop well equipped ; 

 gymnasium and drill hall for winter 

 sports, and in fact all things that are 

 essential to the physical, mental and 

 spiritual training of the boys. 



The making of the bird houses was 

 an outgrowth of the boys nature study 

 and coupled with it is the boys aid in 

 the nation wide movement for bird 

 protection. The boys in their spring 

 tramps learned to recognize and dis- 

 tinguish the early migrating birds as 

 they returned week by week and a 

 careful record was kept and the name 



A Martin House. 



Lawrence Buck Model with 



16 Rooms. 



of each classified 

 bird was credited 

 to the observer, 

 while the teachers 

 aided by frequent 

 talks on the habits 

 of birds. On Ar- 

 bor and Bird Day 

 last May Audu- 

 bon buttons were 

 awarded to boys 

 who knew ten or 

 more birds, and 

 one boy estab- 

 lished a record by 

 naming forty-five 

 birds. 



Out of this study 

 developed the de- 

 cision to manu- 

 facture and sell 

 bird houses, and 

 as the carpenter 

 shop is well equip- 

 ped and the boys 

 have special train- 

 ing in the use of 

 tools the work 

 soon became not 

 only financially 

 successful but a positive delight to the 

 boys. To add to their interest is the 

 fact that each gets ten per cent, of the 

 sale price of the bird houses he makes, 

 and while the industry is not yet a year 

 old a good business has been built up 

 and it is steadily growing. 



A director says of Allendale and the 

 work done there: — 



"We have perhaps too Httle thought 

 of Allendale in her relation to the great 

 uplift movement. We have been en- 

 tirely concerned with the indi\ndual 

 boy, his quality, ten- 

 dencies and progress, 

 and each year have 

 sent out a small group 

 and made an annual 

 report of the expendi- 

 ture of a large sum of 

 money ; and those bent 

 on striking a balance 

 have perhaps felt that 

 results were not com- 

 mensurate with the ^^ ^K 

 outlay. But we must bluebird houses. 



A Wren House. 

 Quincy Model. 



