CORNELL 



R\iral ScKool Leaflet 



[FOR BOYS AND GIRLS] 



Published monthly by the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University, from 

 September to May, and entered as second-class matter September 30, 1907, at the Post OflBce 

 at Ithaca, New York, under the Act of Congress of July 16, 1894- L. H. Bailey, Director 



ALICE G. McCLOSKEY, Editor 



Professors G. F. WARREN, CHARLES H. TUCK, and C. EDWARD JONES, Advisers 



Vol. 3 



ITHACA, N. Y., FEBRUARY, 1910 



No. 6 



He and the storm wild friends together. 

 Himself a part of wind and weather." 



— Harriet Prescott Spofford 



LETTER TO BOYS AND GIRLS 



De.\r Boys and Girls: 



Here it is almost spring time! Who would have thought it! If you 

 should go into the woods one of these warm February days you would 

 be surprised to find how much real spring feeling is there. This month, 

 drear to many persons, has so many charms of its own and so many 

 mysterious promises, that we want you to find them, you who are to 

 love the country and to l)e real naturalists. Go out in sleet and 

 rain and snow — be a part of wind and weather. Keep sturdy hearts 

 and steady feet when tlie cold blasts come, and you will feel free as 

 a sea gull and strong as an eagle. There will be thaws this month, and 

 from your window you will watch someone disappear in a fog. The old 



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