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Then too, each member learns something of the conduct and 

 responsibiHties of a business enterprise. It was appalling to see 

 how blissfvilly irresponsible some of them were. The poor chickens 

 have at times suffered from neglect and the Club has lost chickens 

 and has had feed wasted and equipment stolen because of the 

 indifference of a few who could always give some weak excuse for 

 the nonperformance of duty. We now keep a record of the 

 reliability of each one and are having much better results. 



They have had misfortunes from the first in seeming mockery 

 of their attempted scientific management. February i, 191 5, 

 found them in debt and with practically no income, but since then 

 their hens have done splendidly and substantial dividends are now 

 assured. Each member will be paid his share of the profits and 

 must sell his stock when he leaves the grade. 



Many pupils have a home industry of their own and many more 

 are planning to have. At an "Egg Laying Contest," held last 

 May under the auspices of the Park Ridge Business Men's Associa- 

 tion provision was made for 49 pens of two birds each. Only 

 children under 16 years of age were permitted to enter their hens, 

 but all pens were filled and the later arrivals turned away. The 

 contest lasted six weeks. Premiums valued in all at about 

 $300.00 were awarded to the winners and valuable lessons were 

 learned concerning the feeding and care of hens. 



Even if our experiment in our fifth grade does not prove a success 

 financially it has now proven to be a success educationally and I 

 think justifies our opinion that real industries should be developed 

 in the grades. An eighth grade bank, a printing company, a straw- 

 berry club, a parsley club, a tomato club, a bee club and other 

 similar organizations would be important assets to our curricula. 



Nature-Study in the War Zone 



C. M. Goethe 

 Four wooden-shoed men, in round caps, blue blouses, and the 

 baggy, many-patched trousers that make the Dutch fishermen so 

 popular as artists' models, were shuffling along the brick sidewalk 

 on one side of a medieval -looking square in a little Holland village. 

 On the other side, a market woman was carrying two baskets 

 balanced from a pole across her shoulders. The baskets were 



