THE CO-OPERATION OF THE MANUAL TRAIN- 

 ING DEPARTMENT OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS 



As soon as the Exhibition started, the Director of 

 the Manual Training Department of the Milton Public 

 Schools, Mr. Clarence M. Hunt, met the General Man- 

 ager of the Club at the Exhibition and carefully ex- 

 amined some of the feeding stations and bird nesting 

 boxes that were there shown. He offered heartily to 

 co-operate with the Club in its campaign for the birds. 

 We have already spoken of the fact that the High 

 School pupils built a feeding station for the Cunning- 

 ham Park Bird Sanctuary, and would here call atten- 

 tion to the encouragement that the children received 

 from the teachers of the Manual Training courses to 

 build bird houses and feeding stations not only in the 

 school but in their homes. Several of these articles 

 were finished in time to be included in our Exhibition 

 during the last few weeks that it was open. In many 

 cases the children made their boxes at home and brought 

 them to school to put on the finishing touches. 



After the talk of Mr. Edward Howe Forbush to the 

 school children, many boys made boxes and became so 

 enthusiastic that they even planned which birds should 

 live in their boxes. Some presented bird boxes to the 

 school teachers. The Manual Training Department 

 stands ready to fill orders from our townspeople for 

 either nesting boxes or feeding stations. The co-oper- 

 ation of the Manual Training courses with the work 

 of the Club is an important item for the young people 

 of the town. 



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