12 NATURAL HISTORY OF THE FARM 
our race, and that is still fundamental to a 
good education, and that contributes largely 
to one’s enjoyment of his own environment. 
The best placetobeginisnearhome. Any 
large farm will furnish opportunities. It is 
the object of the lessons that follow to 
help you find the wild things of the farm 
that are most nearly related to your perma- 
nent interests, and to get on speaking terms 
with them. You will be helped by these 
studies in proportion as your own eyes see 
and your own hands handle these wild 
things. The records you make will be of 
value to you only as you write into them 
your own experience: write nothing else. 
Suggestions to students: Theregular field 
work contemplated in this course makes 
certain demands with which indoor labora- 
tory students may be unfamiliar. A few 
suggestions may therefore be helpful: 
zt. As to weather: All weather is good 
weather to a naturalist. It is all on nature’s 
program. Each kind has its use in her 
eternal processes, and each kind brings its 
own peculiar opportunities for learning 
her ways. Nothing is more futile than 
complaint of the weather, for it is ever with 
us. It were far better, therefore, to enter 
into the spirit of it, to make the most of it 
and to enjoy it. 
2. As to clothes: Wear such as are 
strong, plain and comfortable. There are 
thorns in nature’s garden that will tear thin 
stuffs and reach out after anything detach- 
able; and there are burs, that will cling 
persistently to loose-woven fabrics. Kid 
gloves in cold weather and high heels at all 
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