May, 1901. 



Junior-Naturalist Monthly. 



Issued by the College of Agriculture and Experiment Station of 

 Cornell University, under Chapter 430 of the Laws of 1899 



of the State of New York. 



Entered in the Post office at Ithaca, N. Y., as second class matter. A4 



VOL. IIL CORNELL UNIVERSITY, ITHACA, N. Y. NO. 4. 



NATURE IN SUMMER. 



The school year is nearly over. Boys and girls will soon have 

 long, happy, idle days. They may go where they will, seeking new 

 acquaintances in the fields, in tlie woods, and along the roadside. If 

 there were space in tlie leaflet, we could mention hundreds of liv- 

 ing things that would interest our young naturalists. Since we can 

 only speak of two or three, we sliall select those which we do not 

 want you to overlook. Uncle John will be glad to learn next Sep- 

 tember that you have found out something about them during the 

 summer. 



FIELD ACQUAINTANCES. 



Crows. 



It was thinking of " Old Pete " that made me decide to recom- 

 mend crows as good field acquaintances. Ko one could think of 

 Pete and not wish that all Junior Naturalists might have known 

 him. He was certainly a wise old crow. Everyone in the village 

 admitted this. Everyone liked him, too, yet he played mischievous 

 tricks on liis best friends ; he stole whatever pleased him from 

 among their treasures ; he jeered at them whenever he felt like it 

 in a most aggravating way. 



One trick of Pete's was very annoying to many a housewife. 

 Some of the women in the village were very industrious and often 



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