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they took a prize at the county fair, it is evident that they had good care. 

 As a result of this experience the boys and girls have a better knowledge 

 of what to do and of what not to do in raising chickens, and they will be 

 able to use this knowledge in taking care of the home flocks. Another 

 year this school is going to raise a farm crop, and each year there will be 

 some one definite piece of work done at the school that will be valuable 

 in i)ointing the way for home work. In this way school and home will be 

 brought together by practical work. 



District 4, Town of Wilton, vSaratoga County 



Wilton, New York, May 27, 1914 

 Dear Mr. Tuttle: 



I am writing my third letter, but I am not writing to get the picture. 

 I am writing because I like to write and tell you what we are doing, what 

 we have done, and what we are going to do. 



I will tell you what we are doing with our yard first. The boys of 

 the school are making a place all along the yard to set out trees. The 

 district let us send to get trees to make a hedge around the yard. The 

 scholars were going to do it at first. We were going to all put in together 

 and get money enough to do it, but the district volunteered to get them 

 for us, so we will not have to get them. It is quite a hard task for the 

 boys to do what they have started. They have dug a solid trench about 

 two hundred feet long. They are very faithful at their work. We have 

 got two window boxes all ready to put plants in them. The boys made the 

 window boxes for us. We are going to have plants from the greenhouse 

 to put in the window boxes. Our yard looks quite bad this spring because 

 the railroad is right back of the schoolhouse and all the rubbish from the 

 unloading of the cars came over on our school yard, and the teams drove 

 on the yard. But now we have got it so they do not drive on it any more. 

 We took an afternoon ofiE and raked the yard so now it looks a great deal 

 better. 



A gentleman gave us grass seed and sowed it on the yard for us. 



We have two hanging baskets fixed for the porch. 



The scholars got up a soap order to get a bookcase to put our library 

 in, and then we took the old bookcase to put the specimens in which we 

 collected; we have quite a few things in our collection now. We have 

 birds' nests, different kinds of bark, leaves, different kinds of Indian 

 arrowheads, galls, evergreen cones, ores. 



We have a bird chart, and it is the first one that we have had in our 

 school. We were not very much interested in it at first because we did 

 not think there were so many kinds of birds around our place as we have 

 seen. Our teacher told us the reason was that we did not have sharp 

 eyes before and did not see all the different birds. Some of the pupils in 

 the school said that we would not have more than fifteen birds reported, 

 but we have thirty-four reported already. 



I have seen more birds this year than I ever saw in my life before. I 

 have kept a good lookout for the birds ever since I wrote my first letter 

 to you. I am interested in the birds and all nature study more than ever 

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