CORNELL 



R-ural ScKool Leaflet 



SUPPLEMENT FOR THE CHILDREN 



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 



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ITHACA, N. Y., DECEMBER, 1907. 



No. 4 



SUGGESTIONS FOR DECEMBER. 



1. A study of the creatures that one finds in the winter time under 

 old logs, loose bark, stones, and the like. This will include dormant in- 

 sects, cocoons, egg cases of spiders, salamanders, and other forms of life. 



2. Studies of the fallen leaves of trees : the different kinds ; the 

 structure ; the reason for their brown color ; the reason for the spots and 

 eaten places. Interesting collections can be made, showing variations. 



3. A study of dead trees, and the interesting things that a dead tree 

 may contain ; woodpeckers' holes ; flying sc|uirrels" nests ; red squirrels' 

 nests ; wasps' nests ; hibernating bats ; and other things. 



4. Winter birds' nests that will not be used again. Study shape, 

 texture, and materials, using only the more common and easily recog- 

 nizable kinds. 



BIRDS IN 

 WINTER. 



"I watch them 

 from the 

 window, 

 While winds 

 so keenly 

 blow ; 

 How merrily 

 they twit- 

 ter, 

 And revel in 

 the snow ; 

 "In brown and 

 ruffled fea- 

 thers 



They dot 

 the white 

 around, 

 And not one 

 moping 

 comrade 

 Among the 

 lot I've 

 found." 

 George Cooper. Fig. 35. — Cirro-stratus clouds. 



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