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(f) legs, color, covering and size. The Agricultural Fair is the teacher's 

 opportunity to get the children interested in breeds of fowls, their respec- 

 tive appearances, value and beauty. 



LESSON XIL 



A STUDY OF THE WILD RELATIVES OF OUR DOMESTIC BIRDS. 



Purpose. — To direct the pupils to observe the differences between the 

 wild and domestic fowls. The latter have been developed by man. 



After the pupils have become familiar with the lives of our common 

 domestic fowls, it will be most interesting to have them know something 

 about our wild fowls. This may have to be more or less a matter of 

 reading, although most boys have opportunities for seeing partridge, 

 quails and wild ducks, and all have opportunity to see the flocks of 

 migrating wild geese. 



In comparing the closely related wild fowl with our domestic species, 

 they should see that man in breeding has first, made the body heavier ; 

 second, changed the color and the habits by feeding, so that the birds 

 do not need to hunt for their food ; th'rd, has lessened their power of 

 flight, as, for instance, in the case of our common ducks, most of the 

 domestic species being hardly able to fly at all, while the wild ducks are 

 very strong flyers. 



The following stories are good for reading, although we do not 

 think that the sad and tragic parts should be given to young children ; 

 for example, the tragic parts of such a story as Thompson Seton's " Red- 

 rufif " should be omitted and reserved for the boy when he reaches the 

 hunter stage, and is inspired by a desire to shoot everything he sees. 



References : " Redrufif," Thompson Seton ; " The Ol' Beech Par- 

 tridge ; " " The Wild Duck, Kwaseekho " (The Sheldrake) ; " Hukweem" 

 (The Loon) ; " Li Guest of Waptonk, the Wild," all by William J. Long. 



GRASSHOPPERS AND CRICKETS. 

 LESSON XIII 



SOME INTERESTING PECULIARITIES IN THE APPEARANCE OF THESE INSECTS. 



Purpose. — To enable the pupils to understand that the forms of 

 insects are adapted to their needs. 



Preliminary JVork. — There should he in the .sunshiii_v enrner of tlie sehoolrooni 

 two cashes, one for eriekels and fine for grasshoppers. Tin's cage should he nnde 

 by putting in a flower i)ot, sod of clover or grass as fresh as can he foinid. Over 

 this is placed a lantern chimney pressed carefully into the sod so that the insects 



