CORNELL 



R\iral ScKool Leaflet 



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

 September to May and entered as second-class matter September 30, 1907, at the Post Office 

 at Ithaca, New York, under the Act of Congress of July 16, 1894. L. H. Bailey Director 



ALICE G. McCLOSKEY, Editor 

 Professors G. F. WARREN and CHARLES H. TUCK, Advisers 



Vol 



ITHACA, N. Y., OCTOBER, 1908 



No. 



BOYS AND GIRLS 



Here we are together again at the beginning of a new school year. 



As each season comes around it seems the very best of all for outdoor 



folks; at any rate for young folks. What a 

 world of new things opens up to us in the 

 autumn days! It is fun enough just to look 

 on during the harvest time. To see the 

 corn fields in which yellow pumpkins now 

 lie ready to be gathered; to look at the 

 color of the fruit and get its delightful 

 odor; to anticipate on certain October days 

 promise of the Indian Summer; surely au- 

 tumn brings much to all who love the 

 out-of-doors. 



We wish we might know the young per- 

 sons in New York State who have been 

 writing to us during the past few years. 

 Since many of you live too far away for 

 us to know you or to meet you, let us see 

 this vear how near wc can keep together 

 by our common interest in out-of-door 

 things. All that you write to us will 

 help us to know you better. You and I 

 have a great world to explore. The 

 different plants and animals ; all the brooks 



and hillsides; all the color of the fall days; in fact all the sights and 



sounds of the out-of-doors belong to you and me. Let us tell each other 



some of the things we enjoy best. 



As vou go nutting some Saturday try to find things of interest 



to take back to the schoolroom for the following week. It will be good 



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