Rural School Leaflet 



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Secondly, bright-colored paints should not be used on bird houses. A 

 natural-colored wood that has been exposed to the open air for some time, 

 is best. Birds, in making their nests, seek protection, and will not be 

 attracted by a bird house that is painted a shiny white, blue, red, or other 

 ])right color. The bird houses sent to the College for the Farmers' Week 

 exhibition will be judged on their suitability and their workmanship. 



II. Flytrap 



There are various simple flytraps, which can be made by boys and 

 girls. The following is a description by Dr. Winslow, of the State Depart- 

 ment of Health, of one such trap that has proved satisfactory: 



The trap shown in 

 the illustration may be 

 made from a grocery 

 box by substituting wire 

 netting for the top and 

 two sides, cutting a 

 round hole in the bot- 

 tom, and inserting a 

 wire cone with an eight- 

 inch opening at the bot- 

 tom and a half-inch 

 opening at the top. A 

 suitable bait — a fish's 

 head, for example — 

 may be placed under 

 the box, and the flics 

 that seek it will fly from 

 it upward toward the 

 light and through the 

 small top opening into 

 the box. Dead flies 

 may be shaken out 

 through a small open- 

 ing ordinarily closed by 

 a sliding door. 



There are many modi- 

 fications, and it is not 

 necessary that the traps sent to the College for Fanners' Week should 

 conform to this pattern, but they should be simple, easily made, and 

 practicable. 



12. Kitchen apron 

 Miss Blackmore, of the Department of Home Economics, has prepared 

 the following suggestions that will be of assistance to girls in making a 

 kitchen apron. Teachers will be able to explain the suggestions to the 

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Flytrap 



