QUESTIONS
Have you ever built a bird house?
Do you know that if you place a basin upside down on the post before putting the house on, cats cannot climb over it?
Will you keep an account of the birds you see every day?
Why are birds necessary to man?
Name some of the most useful birds?
How can we help birds?
Why is it not right to cage wild birds?
Why do many birds fly south in the fall?
Will you bring some pictures of birds to put on a chart?
If you build a bird house, will you bring it for the class to see?
The birds of one of our large cities are being provided with homes by the pupils of the city’s public schools. These homes are bird houses, made by the children in the manual training classes.
The president of the city’s Humane Society offers a prize every spring to the child who first has a bird tenant in the houses newly set out. The prize is a book about birds and their habits.
You can imagine how eagerly the boys and girls watch the houses to be sure of noting the exact time when a bird family moves in.—National Humane Journal.