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Thursday, January 29. Ladies' Day — Talk on Indian 

 Life, Legends, and Songs by Miss Bee Mayes (Pe-Ahm-E- 

 Squeet), Floating Cloud, Boston, Mass. 



Thursday, February 5. Vegetable Growing and Market- 

 ing by Mr. H. W. Tinker, Warren, R. I. 



Thursday, February 12. Illustrated Lecture — Travels 

 in South America b}^ Prof. George H. Blakeslee of Clark 

 College. 



Thursday, February 19. Illustrated Lecture — Co-opera- 

 tion and Marketing as seen in Europe, by Mr. J. Lewds 

 Ellsworth. 



Thursday, February 26. Seed Growing by Mr. S. F. 

 Willard Wethersfield, Conn. 



Music of the Birds 



The first of the series of lectures to be given by the 

 Worcester County Horticultural Society was Friday 

 afternoon, January 2, in Horticultural hall. F. Schuyler 

 Mathew^s, Cambridge, was the speaker, and his subject was 

 ''Birds." 



Colored charts were used and with the aid of a piano and 

 charts of sheet music he explained the songs of various 

 birds and gave whistling imitations of those most familiar 

 to Worcester people. 



Mr. Mathew told of the vast amount of good done by the 

 birds and how impossible it would be to exist without them. 

 He said: ''Toward the end of winter we do not expect the 

 birds to do for us the work they do in the spring. Al- 

 though that season is not upon us, we should know^ what is 

 coming to us and watch very closely for the coming of the 

 birds. 



"You read about the birds in books, but know little of 

 their music. I am going to try to give you a key perhaps to 

 a new world. If you remember one out of forty I will be 

 pleased. The birds at your feet and in the trees are your 



