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Rural School Leaflet 



PART I 



LIST OF SUBJECTS FOR 1913-1914 



IN NATURE-STUDY AND ELEMENTARY AGRICULTURE 



AS OUTLINED IN THE NEW YORK STATE SYLLABUS 



BIRDS 



OR special study, the robin and the hen; to be 

 recognized, any two winter birds and any five 

 of the following: junco, song sparrow, wren, 

 ovenbird, chimney swift, wood thrush, sandpiper, 

 nicker, catbird, guinea fowl. 



ANIMALS 



For special study, the cow; also the earth- 

 worm; to be recognized, any of the following: 

 sheep, weasel, snail, rabbit, deer. 



INSECTS 



For special study, mosquito or house-fly, and one biting and one suck- 

 ing insect; to be recognized, any four of the following: wasp, cabbage 

 butterfly, lady beetle, cankerworm, horsefly. 



Note: The spider is given for recognition. The ways in which it 

 differs from insects should be learned. 



PLANTS 



For special study, radish; to be recognized, one of the clovers, one of 

 the grains, one of the grasses, and any six of the following: jack-in-the- 

 pulpit, peach, nasturtium, honeysuckle, vetch, dog's-tooth violet, laurel, 

 crocus, pumpkin, celery, iris, Solomon's seal; also any four of the following 

 weeds: sour dock, ragweed, beggar-ticks, Canada thistle, clotbur. 



TREES 



For special study, the elm; to be recognized, two kinds of fruit trees, 

 one conifer, and any four of the following: spruce, pine, juniper, plum, 

 apple, walnut, dogwood, maple, sumac, oak, fir, tulip tree. 



