[Illustration: OHIO ARBOR DAY 1913]

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

STATE OF OHIO

In Accordance with Section 358 of the General Code of Ohio this

Arbor and Bird Day Manual

is Issued for the Benefit of the

SCHOOLS OF OUR STATE

Compiled by

MRS. GRACE R. CLIFTON

Issued by the

STATE COMMISSIONER OF COMMON SCHOOLS

APRIL 1913

Columbus, Ohio: The F. J. Heer Printing Co. 1913

STATE OF OHIO

Executive Department

OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR.

PROCLAMATION.

By authority of the law of the State of Ohio, Friday, April 4th, 1913, is hereby named and set apart as

ARBOR DAY.

The statutes provide that those in charge of public schools and institutions of learning are required to devote at least two hours to giving information to the pupils and students concerning the value and interest of forestry and the duty of the public to protect the birds thereof and also for planting forest trees.

It is well that our people have come to a full appreciation of the commercial, as well as the sentimental value of these things. This appreciation was arrived at through the proper inculcation into the minds of the young of the importance of observing the matters of nature upon which we are all so dependent.

But let us not confine our observance of Arbor Day alone to the schools and institutions of learning. Let us at least carry the spirit of the day also into our homes as well. And above all, let us be mindful at this time of the great scheme of nature wherein the humblest plant and flower, as well as the lordliest of the animal creation, has its proper place.

[Illustration: Ohio State Seal]

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the Great Seal of the State to be affixed at Columbus, this fifteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord, One Thousand, Nine Hundred and Thirteen.

By the Governor:

JAMES M. COX.

CHAS. H. GRAVES Secretary of State.

[Illustration: (signed) James M. Cox]

SECTION 358. The state commissioner of common schools shall issue each year a manual for arbor day exercises. The manual shall contain matters relating to forestry and birds, including a copy of such laws relating to the protection of song and insectivorous birds as he deems proper. He shall transmit copies of the manual to the superintendents of city, village, special and township schools and to the clerks of boards of education, who shall cause them to be distributed among the teachers of the schools under their charge. On arbor day, and other days when convenient, the teachers shall cause such laws to be read to the scholars of their respective schools and shall encourage them to aid in the protection of such birds.

Table of contents (by pages)

• 1: Ohio Arbor Day 1913: Arbor and Bird Day Manual Issued for the Benefit of the Schools of our State
• 2: Such a day shall be known as Arbor Day
• 3: Violet township helped to build this building
• 4: Which we sing with joyous measures
• 5: Saying Dear Arbor Day
• 6: All in unison Dear Arbor Day
• 7: Trees in unison Arbor Day
• 8: Bound in place with wrapping of fine sinews
• 9: Figuratively For wrens only no sparrows need apply
• 10: I'd ruther lay out here among the trees
• 11: The grouse is a very fine bird
• 12: Better known as Johnny Appleseed
• 13: There are some who would call Johnny Appleseed queer
• 14: He sought shelter at a pioneer home
• 15: From Appleseed John by Maria Child
• 16: A pair of nuthatches were found
• 17: And watch you and pat you while you drink
• 18: And pupils are taught to construct simple bird houses
• 19: The sunrise never failed us yet
• 20: Who dares write of the Bluebird
• 21: Sidenote The Bluebird at Home
• 22: Eastern bluebird sialia sialis
• 23: Chestnut backed bluebird sialia mexicana anabelae
• 24: And men will bless forevermore Our sacred Arbor Day
• 25: Cut off all the relatives of Logan
• 26: When Vest finished speaking the jury awarded $500
• 27: The redstart winters in the tropics Mexico
• 28: Redstarts were completing a nest June 13
• 29: With beckoning branches waving low
• 30: Bird study in ohio public schools
• 31: President of National Association of Audubon Societies
• 32: Having long been a favorite cage bird
• 33: The musician recommences his song
• 34: When it burst its shell at last
• 35: And I must ere long lie as lowly as they
• 36: Do apple seeds grow pointing up
• 37: Although it is sunshiny weather
• 38: A man who is unfair to a bird is unfair to himself
• 39: The Redheads discover the beechnuts and go to work
• 40: One family of Redheads once gave me a delightful three weeks
• 41: The fledgling seemed already much at home on its wings
• 42: Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth
• 43: It's more fun goin' barefoot than anythin' I know
• 44: And would finally caw themselves hoarse and tired
• 45: If ever a free matinee in birdland was billed
• 46: Illustration ELABORATE NEST OF LONG EARED OWL
• 47: Illustration BURROWING OWL AND HER EGGS
• 48: The Nightingale In music I excel the lark
• 49: Red robin still sits in the bright winter's sun
• 50: But oft he stops in his sweetest note