CORNELL 



Rural School Leaflet 



(FOR BOYS AND GIRLS) 



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 OfSce 

 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, CHARLES H. TUCK and MILTON PRATT JONES, Advisers 



Vol. 



ITHACA, N. Y., JANUARY, 1909 



No. 5 



O we wear brown velvet jackets in the fall, 

 And we grow up so slender and so tall. 

 We are cat-tails, oh, in the marshlands low, 

 And we wear brown velvet jackets in the fall. 



— Gaynor 



NOTES 



How many plants can you find at 



this time of year from which the birds 



can get seeds? Notice any old cat-tail 



heads. Do they look as if the birds had 



been getting some of their winter food from 



them ? 



Gather a winter bouquet of the stalks that 

 stand above the snow, teasels, cat-tails and the 

 like, and notice the coloring. 



Notice how the stars sparkle on winter nights. 

 Ask your teacher to talk with you about the lesson 

 on stars in the Leaflet for this month. 



THE TREE SPARROW 



It was cold. Oh, how cold it was ! Our feet were 

 cold, our ears were cold, our very bones were cold.' 

 For many hours we had tramped through the drifted 

 roads until it seemed that we would never get home. 

 Several miles still lay before us, not a bird had we 

 seen, not an animal, not even a track in the snow 

 to interest us, except, perhaps, those of the dogs 

 and horses that knew no better than to keep in the 

 road. Suddenly the same thought struck us bf^+h. 



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