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thus preventing the sparrows from rearing their 

 young. Of course killing the sparrow cannot be 

 recommended to the children. Whatever is done 

 along this line must be left to adults. 



If the school-building is favorably situated, 

 houses may be put up in the school-yard. If these 

 are occupied, opportunity will be given the school 

 for bird-study at close range. The children may be 

 sufficiently interested to raise money for a martin- 

 house to be erected in the school-yard, as was done 

 by the children in the Training-School of the Man- 

 kato State Normal School, Minnesota. 



It would be well worth while to see if the park 

 boards would not cooperate with the schools, so 

 that the children might make bird-houses and 

 place them in the parks. Such a plan was carried 

 out in Jackson and Washington Parks, Chicago, 

 the children making several hundred wren- and 

 bluebird-houses. During one season the children of 

 Portland, Oregon, built eight thousand bird-houses 

 and placed them in the various parks and about 

 different sections of the city. Most of them were 

 built by the pupils of the manual-training depart- 

 ments of the different schools. In many localities 

 prizes have been offered for the best bird-houses. 

 As a result thousands of bird-houses have been 

 built by children. These houses are often kept on 

 exhibition for awhile, and many of them are then 

 sold by the children to the people of the community. 



