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Publisbed monthly by the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell Uriversity 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., JANUARY, 1907. 



No. 4. 



THE NATURE-STUDY CORNER. 



If I should visit some of our village and rural schools to-day, I am 

 wondering in how many I would find an interesting Nature-Study Corner ! 

 Would there be a table on which Junior Naturalists could keep specimens 

 for study? I think there are a great many schools in which this has 

 been done and I am sure there are some young persons who have taken 

 delight, when the other lessons were completed, in spending some time 

 in the Nature-Study Corner. 



Fig. I. — A rural schoolhousc on the Cornell campus. 



In visiting schools, I suppose I should find many different specimens 

 that have been found afield and have given material for study. Among 

 other things I should expect to find the following: Bird's nests, different 

 kinds of weed seeds, a wasp's nest, specimens of evergreens, different 

 kinds of twigs, small branches of all the trees to which old leaves cling 

 in winter, feathers gathered in the barnyard which gives material for 

 good observation, a record of winter birds seen about the school or 

 home, a record of the weather and. I hope, heads of wheat, ears of 



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