1 050 Rural vSchool Leaflet 



TO THE OLDER BOYS AND GIRLS 



There will come a day when you will leave the rural school, either 

 to ^o to high school or to go to work. We have been such good friends 

 through the leaflet that it is too bad for us to cease to keep in touch with 

 each other. If you are interested, suppose you send us your name and 

 address for a special list that we will keep, and in return we will write 

 to you occasionally, and send you whatever publications from the College 

 we think would be of interest and of help to you. 



As you grow older you will be in a position to do much for your own 

 and other rural schools. We know of a rural school where every time 

 there is an entertainment or some special occasion for a community gather- 

 ing, a large number of boys and girls fourteen to twenty-one years old 

 come back and help to make it a success. These are those who have 

 gone ahead but who still keep fresh the memory of their first school and 

 have a desire to see that it prospers. We know that in the years to come 

 there will be more and more of this, and that you will be loyal to the 

 school that has given its best service to you. In order that you may 

 help intelligently you will need to know some of the things that the rural 

 schools are doing and planning, and it wdll be a pleasure to us to keep 

 in touch with you as closely as we may, and through you to strengthen 

 the schools of the State. 



Therefore be sure to write to us when you leave the rural school, asking 

 to have your name placed on the Advanced List. Address the Editors of 

 the Cornell Rural School Leaflet, New York State College of Agriculture, 

 Ithaca, New York. 



A REPORT 



A year ago last November it was suggested in the leaflet that boys 

 and girls in the rural schools could be of great service in helping to control 

 the ravages of a serious insect pest, the apple-tree tent caterpillar. This 

 was to be done by collecting and destroying the egg rings that could 

 be found in large numbers on the twigs of apple and wild cherry trees. 



The suggestion met with instant response, and many hundreds of 

 sharp eyes and willing hands went to work. It was found that the egg 

 rings could be stripped off easily without injuring the twigs, and that 

 with a little effort a fair-sized tree could be completely freed of the eggs 

 so that in the spring there would be no unsightly nests and ravenous 

 caterpillars. Such good work was done that we have tried to obtain 

 a report from all the schools that collected egg rings. Up to the time 

 this leaflet went to press, 1,655 schools had reported work done, and the 

 total nimiber of egg rings destroyed by actual count was 3,617,291, When 



