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prairie chicken. (H, 95, etc.) Brief study of their general 

 appearance, where found, how hunted. Brief explanation 

 of the reason for game laws. Show the justice in them. 

 Begin to develop an attitude in favor of such laws and a 

 willingness to abide by them. (113, 117, 120, 246 "Game 

 Laws.") 



Observe and identify bank-swallows. Compare with 

 barn-swallows and martin. 



Insects: Observe insects on flowers. Discuss in a 

 simple way pollination and the necessity for it in producing 

 fruit. (200, 207, 215, 156, 158, H.) Note the injury done 

 to garden plants and tree foliage by insects. Observe espe- 

 cially the cabbage caterpillar. Raise some to maturity.* 

 Note the potato beetle. Why do we put Paris-green on the 

 plants ? Grasshoppers : Observe outside and feed in cages. 

 Read or tell about grasshopper plagues and their effects. 



(J. 132, 136, 148.) 



Ants: Observe ant-hills. Overturn stones and boards, 

 and observe the inside of a nest. Note numbers, some winged 

 males and females, the whitish cocoons carried away by the 

 workers, the minute white eggs, the passage-ways. Feed 

 ants bits of meat, sugar, fruit. See them work. Stories of 

 ants' industry. Collect a canful of ants, cocoons, eggs, and 

 earth, and start an ant cage in the school. (See Chapter XIV.) 

 Observe, feed, and water. General structure of workers.* 

 Compare with them the small winged males, and the larger 

 winged females, "queens." Stories of ants' intelligence, 

 and social order. (J, 132, 133, 130, 47, 58.) 



Informal observations on aquatic insects collected by 

 pupils and kept in aquarium — wrigglers, electric-light bug,* 

 dragon-fly larvae, etc. (47, J.) Observe empty cases of 



