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The Insects, a study of the insect friends and foes of the farmer, how 

 to deal with them ; also the life habits of common butterflies and moths. 



The Fishes, a study of the names, habits, foods and uses of those 

 common to our streams. 



Suggestions will be given as to how these subjects may aid the school 

 work in language, drawing and geography. The course is free of all expense 

 to all teachers in New York State, and is conducted by correspondence. 

 Send a postal card giving your name and address. 



ANNA BOTSFORD COMSTOCK, 



Home Nature-Study Course, 

 Bureau of Nature-Study, 



Cornell University, 

 Ithaca, N. Y. 



Although we received but a limited number of answers from the 

 secretaries, yet in many instances they sent the postals to the rural 

 teachers of the neighborhood without replying to us directly. As 

 a result we had 849 rural school teachers in the Home Nature-Study 

 Course. A smaller proportion of these teachers wrote out the 

 answers than was the case with teachers in cities and villages, who 

 composed our previous classes. However, the answers were of 

 special excellence containing very little superficial work, and, on 

 the whole, it seemed that our efforts have mxt with fair success. 



We sent the leaflets only to those training classes where the 

 teacher requested them specially. 



Our plan was carried out of publishing with each issue a special 

 leaflet on each of the following subjects: birds, trees, plants, insects, 

 fishes. We suggested to the pupils that each take two of these sub- 

 jects and specialize in them rather than try to cover the whole 

 ground. 



Lessons sent out for the year: 



Birds 2,830 



Trees 2,515 



Plants 2,226 



Insects 1,576 



Fish i,o8r 



10,228 

 These lessons were sent out in the aggregate as follows : 



October-November 2,196 



December-January 2,428 



February-March 2,730 



April-May 2,874 



10,228 



