62 Bird -Lore 



I). Birds which distribute seeds: useful to man; harmful to man. 



10. Birds as guano-producers. Actual money-value to man. 



11. Birds as guardians of forests; as pruners of vegetation. 



12. Birds in relation to destructive insect pests; fungous pests. 



Refer to Useful Birds and Their Frotection by E. H. Forbush; Birds in Their Relation 

 to Man, by Weed and Dearborn; and bulletins of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture on Economic Ornithology. 



II 



1. Kinds of food of different races of men. 



2. Distribution of staple articles of food, such as wheat, corn, rye, barley, sugar- 

 cane, vegetables, fruits, rice and other cereals, cofYee, tea, cacao, cncoanul, dates, figs, fish, 

 and shell-fish. 



3. Supply of milk, cream, fats, and meat and necessity for any or all of these. 



4. Which kinds of food are most indispensable to life? 



5. Which kinds properly cooked and properly eaten will produce the most energy? 



6. Which kinds are produced in the greatest abundance? 



7. Which kinds are used by the greatest number of people? 



8. Which kinds of food preferred by man do birds eat? 



9. Which kinds used by man do birds protect? 



10. Which kinds are capable of being improved? How? 



11. Which kinds can be grown in a home-garden? Which, only in large and si)ecially 

 cultivated areas? 



12. How can man best help birds so that they in turn may help him best? 



See Crop Zones and Life-Zones of the United Stales, by D. C. Hart Merriam; Bulletin 

 No. 10, 1898, U. S. Department of Agriculture; Work of Luther Burbank; Wild Bird 

 Guests, by Ernest Harold Baynes. — A. H. W. 



FOR AND FROM ADULT AND YOUNG 

 OBSERVERS 



SOME HIGH-SCHOOL METHODS OF BIRD-STUDY 



In response to inquiries concerning our work, I wish to inform you of what 

 we are doing here in the way of interesting the students in birds and bird- 

 study. 



During the first two weeks in February I showed a set of lantern-sUdes to all 

 our first-year classes and encouraged them to form a Junior Audubon Society. 

 The slides showed types of winter birds and methods of attracting birds. In 

 my talk I emphasized the economic importance of birds. 



Since that time, under the direction of Miss Amy E. Hale, about forty 

 students have formed a society. They are to send their names this week. 



This past week, through the direction of the South County Rod and 

 Gun Club and the State Bird Commission, thirty-live students have dis- 

 tributed 300 pounds of scratch-feed and the Boy Scouts each carried a bag 

 of grain when they started on their hike. The newspapers have reported 



