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FARM AND SCHOOL PROBLEMS. 



How to Protect Birds. 



1. Organize Audubon Societies. 



2. Build houses for the birds. 



3. Plan shelter for those that stay in winter. 



4. Provide food in bad winter weather. 

 5*. Provide drinking fountains and baths. 



6. Protect them from enemies. 



7. Urge the enactment of Bird Legislation, and enforcement of 

 Laws. 



8. Discourage the use of bird plumage for ornaments. 



They will repay you a thousand fold for your labor in their 

 behalf, in their songs and in the protection of your crops. 



FIG. 3. A School Exhibit showing bird-houses, birds and other 

 school studies, at Harpster, O. 



Exercises. 



1. Organize an Audubon class in the school. 



1. Write for leaflets to the National Audubon Society. 



3. Make a list of birds on the home farm. 



4. Make a list of birds that you know by sight. 



5. Make a list of birds that you can recognize by their song. 



6. Make a list of birds that you 'have seen searching the trunk, 

 branches and bark of trees in the orchard or woods. Make a list of tree- 

 insects eaten. 



7. Make a list of birds that build their nests on the ground in 

 .pastures and meadows. Make a list of insects they eat. 



