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., NOVEMBER, 1906. 



No. 2. 



THANKSGIVING TIME. 



At this season of the year, boys and girls have a great deal of 

 interest in poultry yards. I wonder why. They seem to be particularly 

 interested in turkeys. Does any Junior Naturalist know the reason? 

 Well, since you are spending a part of your time among the turkeys, 

 ducks, chickens and the like, you may as well learn something about them. 



Fig. I. — Not z'ery sociable. 



Ask your teacher if she will visit a poultry yard with you some day 

 after school. It may be that for your Nature-Study lessons she will 

 feel she may close school early. This will be more fun than finishing 

 up your work in school. It will be more profitable, too, for boys and 

 girls, particularly in farm districts, should learn to know out-of- 

 door things. 



No doubt at Thanksgiving time, you would prefer to study turkeys, 

 so we shall consider them first. Take your leaflet along when you visit 



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