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as repairing injured limbs and diseased and decayed spots. 

 How does this compare with medical and surgical treat- 

 ment of human beings ? 



7. Demonstrate how to lay off a lawn with a view to 

 artistic arrangements for the lawn itself and as related to 

 the home, buildings, pathway and roadway. 



8. Demonstrate how to sharpen and set a fence post. 



9. Show how to set a corner post and brace it. 



10. Demonstrate how to make bird houses, bird baths, 

 watering troughs, feeding platforms, etc., on the lawn or in 

 the shrubbery, trees, and out in the wood lot, to encourage 

 and help the conservation of bird life. 



5. Play Contests for Home Grounds and Wood Lot 

 There can be no "better way to arouse interest in the im- 

 proving of home grounds and the planting and care of wood 

 lots than to inaugurate a large number of play contests, 

 related to this work. Practically all of the demonstrations 

 outlined above can be so organized as to become very inter- 

 esting play contests. Illustrations: 



1. Tree naming contest. 



2. Spelling contest from a list of names of tiees, shrubs, 

 plants and flowers. 



3. Drawing contest, showing the plan and arrangement 

 of lawns, wood lots and farm home grounds. 



4. Wood collection and exhibit contest. 



5. Manual-training contests, in which the pupils are 

 to contest in making articles from wood, leaves, bark, buds 

 and flowers. 



6. Tree judging contest. 



7. Lawn mowing contest, the same to cover a season 

 and to involve not only the mowing of the lawn but its 

 proper up-keep, repair and improvement. 



8. Essay writing contest on the home grounds and 

 wood lot. 



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