NATURE-STUDY NEWS 85 



April 18 — How a Scout May Raise Chickens and Make a 



Garden 



April 25 — Fish a Scout Should Know 



May 2 — Wild Animals a Scout Should Know 



May 9 — Summer Birds a Scout Ought to Know 



May 16 — How a Scout Can Raise Bees 



May 23 — Farewell meeting for season and talk on conduct 



and observations during summer vacation 



The California Section of the A.N.-S.S. has elected Pro- 

 fessor V. L. Kellogg, of Leland Stanford Junior University, as 

 its director and representative on the council of the society. 



A SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL TROLLEY TRAIN IN THE INTERESTS 



of rural schools, equipped and provided with speakers from 

 the College of Agriculture of the University of Illinois, was run 

 over the lines of the Illinois Traction System, February 27 to 

 March 10, 191 1. One day was given each town visited. Simple 

 talks with well selected illustrative material were given pn the 

 subjects of poultry, farm animals, soils and crops, the dairy, and 

 birds and insects- The train consisted of two cars and carried 

 representatives of different types of poultry, models of houses, 

 brooders, incubators, feeds, feed boxes, and trap nests, a live 

 sheep, cuts of meat, types of soil, pot cultures showing crops 

 grown under varying conditions of plant food, exhibits showing 

 component parts of milk, milk utensils, methods of detecting 

 "robber cows," composition of seeds, life histories of injurious 

 insects, colored charts of birds, etc. 



The county superintendent of schools acted as host through 

 his county. At most of the stops overflow meetings were neces- 

 sary, and talks were given in waiting rooms, school houses, ware- 

 houses, halls, churches, and frequently in the open field. A daily 

 average of thirteen hundred people, almost wholly children, visit- 

 ed this novel train, which was characterized by some as "a little 

 college on wheels". In several instances schools closed and 

 children, teachers and directors drove in on hayracks or other 

 vehicles a distance of six or even ten miles. 



The interest in nature-study-agriculture was most gratify- 

 ing, and there was abundant evidence that this subject is rapidly 

 winning its way into the schools. 



