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Title: Ohio Arbor Day 1913: Arbor and Bird Day Manual
Issued for the Benefit of the Schools of our State

Author: Various

Editor: Grace R. Clifton

Release Date: October 13, 2007 [EBook #23029]

Language: English

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[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.

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