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 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, CHARLES H. TUCK, and MILTON PRATT JONES, Advisers 



V6L. 



ITHACA, N. Y., APRIL, 1909 



No. 8 



TALKS TO BOYS AND GIRLS 



My Dear Young Folks: 



It is getting along into spring, isn't it? And you are having a restless 

 feeling. Four o'clock is a long time coming when fish are biting just 

 as fast as you drop your hook into the water, when trilliums, violets, 

 and the flowers that look like peppermint candy are likely to blossom 

 almost any day in the woods, and when the song sparrow flies to the 

 top rail of the fence across the road and warns all young housekeepers 



At work 



in this fashion: " 'Maids, maids, maids, put your teakettles, teakettles, 

 teakettles on,' " You listen to him and see whether you don't begin to 

 get hungry for supper. 



But before supper read over the announcements of the Cornell Con- 

 tests. Then will you not write at once stating in which contest you 

 wish to enter? Start right away to make arrangements for that quarter 

 acre of ground or garden. In next month's Leaflet we will tell you 



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