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in the interests of overcoming some of the defects emphasized above. If our 

 colleges and universities can so willingly and rapidly meet the demand for a 

 more practical and concrete training, why should not our public and normal 

 schools follow their patriotic example? They are leading the way as President 

 Eliot prophesied they must, and we may look for "a new sort of teacher and 

 much new apparatus" also, thus "broadening but not excluding book work.^\ 

 —A. H. W. 



JUNIOR AUDUBON WORK 



For Teachers and Pupils 



Exercise XLII: Correlated with History, Geography, Physiology, 



and Conservation 



"The Wild Turkey should have been the emblem of North America, and so thought 

 Benjamin Franklin. The Turkey is the national bird, truly indigenous, and not found 

 beyond the limits of that continent; he is the herald of the morning, and, around the 

 log-house of the squatter, must convey associations similar to those produced by the 

 crowing of the cock around the cottage of the European farmer. 'I was awakened,' 

 says Bartram, 'in the morning early, by the cheering converse of the wild turkey cocks 

 saluting each other from the sun-brightened tops of the lofty cypress and magnolia. 

 They begin at early dawn, and continue till sunrise. The high forests ring with the 

 noise of these social sentinels, the watchword being caught and repeated from one to 

 another, for hundreds of miles around, insomuch that the whole country is, for an hour 

 or more, in an universal shout, or in the poetry of Southey, 



'On the top 

 Of yon magnolia, the loud Turkey's voice 

 Is heralding the dawn; from tree to tree 

 Extends the waikening watch-notes, far and wide, 

 'Till the whole woodlands echo with the cry.' " 



— From The Naturalist's Library, Vol. III. 



THE MEAT-SUPPLY OF THE WORLD 



Note. — Referring to the preceding exercise, let emphasis again be placed upon the 

 value to both teachers and pupils, of becoming familiar with the work and publications 

 of the United States Department of Agriculture. As the public need for information 

 and instruction becomes more urgent, not only with reference to the food-supply of the 

 world, but also to much of the essential business of living, the Bureau of Education 

 under the Department of the Interior, in cooperation with the United States Food 

 Administration, has undertaken a series of "Lessons in Community and National Life," 

 graded from the intermediate classes of the grammar school to the upper classes of the 

 high school. 



This fundamental subject of food involves a great deal of the business of the world, 

 as well as matters pertaining to business organization, national standards, the origin 

 and development of large industries, national institutions and methods and pro- 



