786 Rural School Leaflet. 



11. The games that girls can play in the country. 



12. The books you like best and why you like them. 



Your composition must show that you are familiar wuth your subject. 

 Do a piece of work, read a book, or play a game ; then tell us about it. 

 Such a composition will be considered for a prize. Every one try. 

 The competition will close Oct. 15, 1908. 



Alice G. McCloskey. 



EXHIBITION WORK 



At a meeting of the New York State Science Teachers' Association and the 

 New York State Teachers' Association to be held in Syracuse in December, igo8, 

 there will be a Cornell Exhibit of public school work in nature-study and agricul- 

 ture. We want every boy and girl to help us to make this exhibit worth the while. 



Anything that has to do with the study of nature will be acceptable for the 

 exhibit. This will, of course, include agricultural work done by girls and boys, 

 since agriculture is nature-study. We shall be glad to receive compositions, 

 drawings, and herbariums. Collections of the eggs and feathers of poultry, as 

 suggested in the lessons in the Cornell Rural School Leaflet will be satisfactory. 

 IVc do not zwnt collections of eggs and feathers of wild birds. 



In the manual training department of some schools, pupils have learned to make 

 things that have helped them in their outdoor study. Some classes have made 

 bird houses, tools, baskets, instruments used for measuring horses, cages for study- 

 ing insect life, attractive markers to be placed beside each plat in the school 

 garden, butter-prints designed and made by the children, and many other tilings. 

 We should like to borrow some of this work for the exhibit. What can your 

 school send us ? 



During the summer you might make collections of different kinds of soils. 

 Prepare compositions to send with the collections, making statements as to where 

 the .'^oils were found, and any knowledge you have concerning them. 



Some boy may care to make a study of commercial fertilizers and send small 

 samples of each in bottles or boxes with his composition. A collection of weeds 

 of field, wayside, or garden would be interesting. Some boys and girls might like 

 to make collections of grasses or grains. 



Keep all the exhibits until we tell you when to send them to us, and where to 

 send ihem. 



Note. — In the April Leaflet directions were given for summer work for the Boys' 

 Club. Any boy who has not received a copy should apply for one immediately. 

 There is a letter in the Teachers' Leaflet this month for the members of the Farm 

 Boys' Club. Ask your teacher to read it to you. All communications in regard 

 to the Boys' Club should be addressed to Prof. C. H. Tuck, Ithaca, N. Y. 



