CORNELL 



R\iral School Leaflet 



Published monthly by the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University, from 

 September to May and entered as second-class matter September 30, 1907, at the Post Office 

 at Ithaca, New York, under the Act of Congress of July 16, 1894. L. H, Bailey Director 



ALICE G. McCLOSKEY, Editor 

 Professors G. F. WARREN and CHARLES H. TUCK, Advisers 



Vol. I. 



ITHACA, N. Y., NOVE^IBER, 1907. 



No. 3 



Fig- 13- 



Lesson V. 

 THE STRUGGLE TO LIVE. 

 By L. H. Bailey. 

 Object. — To lead the pupil to appreciate the great fact that every liv- 

 ing thing is exposed to conditions or contingencies unfavorable to its wel- 



FiG. 13. — The struggle to live among the branches of a spruce tree. 



fare, and that it must contend with these conditions in order to live. This 

 is the second generalization that any person should make when studying 

 plants and animals. 



Materials. — Any plant or animal anywhere ; or a branch of any plant ; 

 or a leaf or bud of any planL'. 



The method is to study any plant, or branch of a plant, with reference 

 to the position or condition under which it grows, and to compare one 

 plant or branch with another. With animals, it is common knowledge 

 that every animal is alert to avoid or escape danger, or to protect itself. 



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