S^unior Baturalist /Ihontbl^ 



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

 October to May, and Entered at Ithaca as Second-class Matter. L. H. Bailey, Director. 



ALICE G. McCLOSKEY, Editor. 

 New Series. Vol. 3. ITHACA, N. Y., OCTOBER, 1906. No. i. 



I love to wander through the woodlands hoary 



In the soft light of an autumnal day, 

 When summer gathers up her robes of glory, 



And like a dream of beauty glides away. 



— Sarah Helen Whitman. 



TO JUNIOR NATURALISTS. 



This new school year we are glad to welcome our boys and girls 

 who have been with us so long and also to welcome the new members 

 of the Junior Naturalist Club. We shall try to make this year full of 

 happy times and rich in useful knowledge of the out-of-doors. There 

 are treasures of all sorts hidden along the wayside; we shall teach you 



to find them. We want you to be a 

 band of young farmers with the whole 

 outdoor world for your farm. Let us 

 consider some of the things we would 

 learn on this great farm — things that 

 will give you pleasure in the learning, 

 and be helpful to you if you should 

 ever be a farmer, 



I. There are the birds, all of them 

 living their own lives in ways that are 

 best for them. Every one of the birds 

 is worth knowing for itself and for 

 the part that it has in the great out- 

 door world. We shall also find that 

 these birds have relation directly to 

 the farmer — some aid him in his occu- 

 pation and some hinder. We do not 

 need to destroy those that hinder him, 

 but we should take extra pains to 

 Black-eyed Susan. protect those that aid him, 



2. Domestic fowls. Every boy and girl is interested in domestic 

 fowls. Let us see how much we can learn about them this 'year — ducks 

 and geese and chickens. How many kinds there are ; how they differ, 

 one from another ; their habits ; why some farmers are successful in 

 raising fowls while others are not ; in what ways they are useful and 

 harmful to the farmer. 



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