The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1902-04-10
State Superintendent of Instruction
Issues the Annual Program for
the Celebration.
no BE GENERALLY OBSERVED
Kenosha Students Will Celebrate Arbor
Day by Planting Trees and With Special
Exercises in All schools of City.

Following the custom which has
been observed for number Of years,
the Governor has issued a proclama-
ton asking all the schools of the State
to observe, Friday, May 9, 1902, as
Arbor and Bird day and an Arbor and
Bird Day Annual has been compiled
by State Superintendent L. D. Harvey
and will be sent to all the schools Of
the State to suggest to parents, teach
cers and pupils some of the lines of
work which may be attempted in the
proper observances of the day.
The cover for this years annual is
very artistically gotten up. The de-
sign is conventional one and repre-
ssents the return of the birds in the
covers will be sent to some of the
leading libraries, to be used as posters.
Several of the poems and prose Sc
lections have been illustrated with pen
and ink drawings, and few cuts of
school buildings, schoo1-room interiors,
high school Libraries and district school
bookcases have been inserted.
These cuts represent conditions that
exist today in some of the most pro-
gressive districts, villages and cities
aof Wisconsin, and it is hoped that an
effort will be made in all parts of the
State to improve existing conditions
so that whoever prepares the Arbor
and Bird Day Annual for 1908 may
have available cuts which will show
the results of the efforts of the teach
gers, pupils and parents during the
past year to improve existing condi-
dions. ..,.........
superintendent L. d. Harvey, in
letter to the teachers of the State,
urges them to make the school home as
attractive as possible. He says: "The
lessons of the day should be but the
beginning of the work for the entire
year. The teacher must be the leader
and inspirer in that work." He also
asks the teachers to make persistent
effort to cultivate in the children a
Aove for the beautiful in nature and an
acquaintance with and protecting care
for the birds that make their homes in
the vicinity, aud says that if this is
adone the observance of Arbor and
Bird day may be made the starting
point for study of nature and for the
development of taste for the beauti-
ful, not only in the school, but in the
home.
A new feature of this years book is
"A chapter on agriculture by Superin-
Eendent Harvey. This chapter pre-
SCENTS two practical lessons on agricul-
&ure which should be taught in every
rural school. Careful Investigations
Ny r. A. Moore, of the Wisconsin ag-
ricultural experiment station, indicate
that at least 20 per CENTS, 25O,OOO
bushels-of last years oat crop was
ruined by smut Estimating oats at
IS cents per bushel, this means a loss
no the farmers of 1887 900. sum
which would have paid the entire cost
ofthe public schools for year.
practically every dollar of this enor-
Hnous sum would have been saved if
the farmers had known how to treat
She seed oats before planting. The
first lesson tells how to treat the seed
oats to prevent smut. The second les
sou tells how to prevent the killing
out of clover in the summer.
The selection and arrangement of
material in the annual has been made
by Miss A. H. Mcneil, the librarian of
the department,