. How to study birds; a practical guide for amateur bird-lovers and camera-hunters . riculum, and of theseeleven Included bird-study in that course. Theseschools were of the better class. Along this line, as a sign of the times showing thatthe public are beginning to realize the necessity ofconserving the great national asset of bird-life inorder to save our harvests and trees from Insect pests,It is Interesting to note that at the last session of thelegislature of Illinois a bill was passed making Itmandatory that every teacher shall give at least halfan hour each week to Instruction In kindn
. How to study birds; a practical guide for amateur bird-lovers and camera-hunters . riculum, and of theseeleven Included bird-study in that course. Theseschools were of the better class. Along this line, as a sign of the times showing thatthe public are beginning to realize the necessity ofconserving the great national asset of bird-life inorder to save our harvests and trees from Insect pests,It is Interesting to note that at the last session of thelegislature of Illinois a bill was passed making Itmandatory that every teacher shall give at least halfan hour each week to Instruction In kindness to ani-mals and In bird study. It is also provided that incase of failure to do this there shall be a forfeit ofpart of the salary. It certainly looks as though thecoming generations In that State would have intel-ligent Ideas as to the value of bird-life, and we arenot rash In believing that the same thing will be trueof other States than Illinois, through similar methods. This movement is so new that It Is still In the form-ative and tentative stage, and no one approved and. Flicker near low nest-hole by road. Camera set on fence. —p. lOo 1 ** r-- m -■: HL ■ irJ ^B^^B^^S^^^m ^m * 11 i \^ VV»T .•. ^ -J^ ^difii^^ ^ • ,5!^.-. i4^;Lwii^ Sl h. Industrious Downy \Aoodpecker at work. BIRD-STUDY FOR SCHOOLS 255 authorized system or grading in teaching nature-study has yet become recognized and adopted. Su-pervisors and teachers are as yet thrown considerablyupon their own resources. There are no particularbooks which are required to be used. Yet there isone main principle upon which there is general agree-ment, that just as far as possible this line of studyis to be drawn from nature itself, rather than frombooks. Books may be used as aids, yet unless thepupil can be induced to get acquainted with the bird,flower, or whatever it may be, outdoors in its naturalsurroundings, or be inspired and interested throughthe indoor study to seek them out, the main good ofthe cours
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