Notes from Correspondents 



Myrtle Boice who has charge of the Nature-study in the 

 Ethical School in New York City writes: 



"School opened yesterday and now we are in full swing. We are 

 doing some work with the stars, etc., winter bird work in the park, 

 also trees in wintt 



Miss Adeline Thurston who has charge of the nature-study 

 in the New Paltz, N. Y., normal school, writes: 



"My work is delightful here. Just now the pupils are most 

 interested in establishing feeding stations for the winter birds 

 at their homes and in the fields and woods. I have organized 

 groups of boys to maintain the more distant stations. It is a 

 real pleasure to see the happiness of the girls when the chickadees 

 and downies accept their hospitality. The children have had 

 great fun in trimming a Christmas tree for the birds which they 

 will put on the campus tomorrow. The tree is very gay with 

 strings of nuts, crackers and popcorn and pieces of suet. 



"What do you think? We have hepaticas in blossom in our 

 moss jars and the arbutus buds look as if they soon would be in 

 bloom. The children have taken a great pride in making terraria 

 and aquaria for their grade rooms this fall. The students are 

 growing hyacinths and narcissus in their rooms this year. O, we 

 have just been doing lots of nice things this fall." 



The Texas Farmers Seek to Save the Mourning Dove 



When farmers stand firm, legislators must give way. That is 

 exemplified in our history over and over. There comes to us from 

 the Texas Farmers' Congress, held at College Station, July, 

 resolutions remonstrating against the change in the law, making 

 open season for hunting mourning doves to begin September first 

 instead of November first. There is a ring of firmness and warning 

 in these resolutions and the legislatures had better listen to the 

 "wind whistling in the trees." The resolutions are embodied in a 

 Bulletin No. 67 from the University of Texas, Department of 

 Extension on the Mourning Dove by W S. Taylor, Professor of 

 Agricultural Extension. It is an admirable bulletin from every 

 point of view and ought to save this attractive bird from extinc- 

 tion. 



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