FARM HANDICRAFT FOR SCHOOLS. 13 



Note to Teacher. — This exercise may be correlated with drawing, language, or 

 geography, as well as agriculture. Have the pupils make a drawing of the house to 

 scale. Let them design and build other types of houses and put them up at home 

 and about the school yard. See list of references given, especially Farmers' Bulletin 

 609. Language-lesson topics that may be used are: Birds, the Farmers' Friends, 

 Food of Birds, Nature Study and Birds, and Where Birds Migrate. As a geography 

 lesson have the pupils locate the States to which the birds migrate and study the 

 climatic conditions of these States. As lessons in agriculture make studies of the 

 feeding habits of birds and learn what weed seeds and insects are eaten by birds. 

 Learn methods of keeping crows from taking freshly planted corn. 



List of U. S. Department of Agriculture publications on birds. 



DEPARTMENT BULLETINS. 



No. 107. Birds in Relation to Alfalfa Weevil. 



128. Distribution and Migration of North American Rails and Their Allies. 



171. Food of Robins and Bluebirds of United States 



185. Bird Migration. 



187. Preliminary Census of Birds of United States. 



205. Eleven Important Wild Duck Foods. 



217. Mortality Among Waterfowl Around Great Salt Lake, Utah. 



280. Food Habits of the Thrushes of the United States. 



292. Distribution and Migration of North American Gulls and Their Allies. 



farmers' bulletins. 



No. 493. The English Sparrow as a Pest. 



497. Some Common Game, Aquatic, and Rapacious Birds in Relation to Man. 



506. Food of Some Well-known Birds of Forest, Farm, and Garden. 



609. Bird Houses and How to Build Them. 



628. Game Laws for 1914. 



621. How to Attract Birds in Northeastern United States. 



630. Some Common Birds Useful to the Farmer. 



yearbook separate. 



No. 620. American Thrushes Valuable Bird Neighbors. 

 642. Shore Birds and Their Future. 



BIOLOGICAL survey circular. 



No. 94. Directory of Officials and Organizations Concerned with Protection of Birds 

 and Game. 1913. 



EXERCISE IV. SEED GERMINATOR. 



In figure 22 is shown a type of seed germinator that is very con- 

 venient for testing seed corn. The box is divided into squares by 

 broom wire or cord. Sand or soil is placed in the box, and the kernels 

 are planted in the squares. The rows of squares are numbered one 

 way of the box and lettered the other way. Each square can then 

 be designated by a number and a letter in the same manner as cities 

 and countries are often designated on maps. For example, the upper 

 left hand square is A 1, the upper right hand one, A 10. When corn 

 is to be tested, the ear from which a group of kernels is taken is desig- 

 nated by the same letter and number as the square in which it is 

 planted. 



