The Phenology of Nova Scotia, 1923. — By A. H. MacKay, 

 LL.D., Halifax. 



These observations were made by the school children of 

 the Province of Nova Scotia as a part of the Nature Study- 

 work prescribed. The pupils report by bringing into the school- 

 room the flowering or other specimens when first observed, 

 for authoritative determination by the teacher, who generally 

 credits the first finder by placing the name and the observation 

 on the honor roll section of the blackboard for the day. The 

 teacher, after testing the correctness of the observation, marks 

 it on the schedule with which every teacher is provided — a copy 

 of which is sent in to the Inspector with the school returns at 

 the end of June and January. 



The following tables are complied from 149 of the best 

 schedules out of the 275 sent in. The selections were made 

 and compiled under the direction of Miss M. G. McLeod 

 and iVliss Annimae Bill, of the Education Department. 



The schedules for each year are carefully bound up in large 

 annual volumes which are placed in the Provincial Museum 

 and Science Library, where they can be used by students of 

 climate, etc. The compilers of the phenochrons of the different 

 belts, slopes or regions, have been rural science teachers who 

 have most distinguished themselves as instructors. They 

 were selected for the purpose on the recommendation of the 

 Director of rural science education. The sheets from which the 

 provincial phenochrons are calculated are also bound in annual 

 folio volumes for ease of consultation and preservation. 



The province is divided into its main climate slopes or 

 regions not always coterminous with the boundaries of counties. 

 Slopes, especially those to the coast, are subdivided into belts 

 such as (a) the coast belt, (b) the low inland belt, and (c) the 

 high inland belt, as follows: 



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