Cornell Rural School Leaflet, Volumes 9-111915 - Agriculture |
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... feathers , hair , or moss . The eggs , from five to eight in number , are white , speckled sparingly with reddish brown . The nest is made in May . The chickadees and the nuthatches may be induced to visit our orchards A friendly ...
... feathers , hair , or moss . The eggs , from five to eight in number , are white , speckled sparingly with reddish brown . The nest is made in May . The chickadees and the nuthatches may be induced to visit our orchards A friendly ...
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... feathers , the golden - crowned kinglets brave even the severest winters , although they always prefer the shelter afforded by the evergreens , and are Ruby - crowned kinglet seldom found far from them . They hop about on the smallest ...
... feathers , the golden - crowned kinglets brave even the severest winters , although they always prefer the shelter afforded by the evergreens , and are Ruby - crowned kinglet seldom found far from them . They hop about on the smallest ...
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... feathers so that at times the bright color patch appears much more brilliant than at others . The ruby - crowned kinglet has a beautifully executed warble , which is very sweet and surprisingly loud for the size of the bird ; but the ...
... feathers so that at times the bright color patch appears much more brilliant than at others . The ruby - crowned kinglet has a beautifully executed warble , which is very sweet and surprisingly loud for the size of the bird ; but the ...
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... bird that seems to spend its entire life searching for insects in the bark of trees . It has a rather long tail of stiff feathers , which , like that of a woodpecker , helps support it ; the bill is long and curved for. 28.
... bird that seems to spend its entire life searching for insects in the bark of trees . It has a rather long tail of stiff feathers , which , like that of a woodpecker , helps support it ; the bill is long and curved for. 28.
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... feathers , and lay four or five white eggs spotted with brown . The barn swallow spends the winter in South and Central America , but returns to central New York somewhat after the middle of April , and begins to nest about a month ...
... feathers , and lay four or five white eggs spotted with brown . The barn swallow spends the winter in South and Central America , but returns to central New York somewhat after the middle of April , and begins to nest about a month ...
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Page 255 - Truth is within ourselves ; it takes no rise From outward things, whate'er you may believe. There is an inmost centre in us all, Where truth abides in fulness ; and around, Wall upon wall, the gross flesh hems it in, This perfect, clear perception — which is truth.
Page 50 - Hark, where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans to the field and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dewdrops — at the bent spray's edge- — That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture!
Page 140 - ... NOISELESS patient spider, I mark'd where on a little promontory it stood isolated, Mark'd how to explore the vacant vast surrounding, It launch'd forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself, Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them. And you O my soul where you stand, Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space, Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them, Till the bridge you will need be form'd, till the ductile anchor hold, Till the gossamer...
Page 115 - And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. At last the people in a body To the Town Hall came flocking: ;"Tis clear...
Page 202 - THE DANDELION. DEAR common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride, uphold, High-hearted buccaneers, o'erjoyed that they An Eldorado in the grass have found, Which not the rich earth's ample round May match in wealth, — tliou art more dear to me Than all the prouder summerblooms may be.
Page 334 - If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young; but thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee ; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.
Page 69 - Then the little Hiawatha Learned of every bird its language, Learned their names and all their secrets, How they built their nests in Summer, Where they hid themselves in Winter, Talked with them whene'er he met them, Called them "Hiawatha's Chickens.
Page 192 - SUPPOSE the little cowslip Should hang its golden cup, And say, "I'm such a tiny flower I'd better not grow up :" How many a weary traveller Would miss its fragrant smell!
Page 254 - One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.
Page 162 - tis the lullaby Time is singing — Hush, and heed not, for all things pass, Hush, ah, hush! and the Scythes are swinging Over the clover, over the grass ! — Andrew Lang.