Wisconsin School of the Air; Afield with Ranger Mac; 31

The Wisconsin School of the air invites you to go a field where the Ranger mech. Today we're going to take our final trip down the nature trail for this year. But listen until the end of the program for an announcement of a special nature trip next week. Now here's your guide Ranger Mack to tell you about nature quests for summer. Hello boys and girls. This is your day. So up and away. Yesterday you Ranger Mack saw a robin with an earthworm in its mouth. And you might guess what has happened in the spruce tree. Is it possible that this miracle could have occurred so soon with spring just getting well on on its way. The matchmaking building of the nursery the laying of eggs the incubation which takes place at takes place about two weeks. And now the little ones I could hardly believe my eyes and I don't yet. How regrettable it is that with all the return of life this bringing to life that now we see about us that our trail should come to an

end. The warblers are now on their way north and the woods are vibrant with their songs beneath the bushes outside my window the white throated sparrows were scratching as I wrote this broadcast scratching out a meal throwing aside the leaves with both feet acting at the same time. They must have found picking that a good part of their delicate song floated through the open window. The buds a burst and the delicate green of the developing leaves makes a very place of the Woodlands. That's where our trail ends where life is returning and there is so much to see that should bring joy to your hearts. But we are not like the little brook we cannot go on forever now but if you have been good hitters you will continue along the trail hearing more seeing more rejoicing more are. As one of your quests for the summer find a stump or log

deep in some nearby woods go to that place. Often the bluejay may warn the denizens of the woods that another two legged creature has entered and warned them to scamper for cover taking a comfortable position on the log and sit quietly motionlessly bar. A little while maybe a half hour. Could you do that. I know that it is a task for an active youngster to sit and be quiet for that long. But you will be rewarded with a return to The Woodlands and you will be surprised to find how many creatures you will see. But you must sit quietly and you must go alone. After all it is not a bad idea for you to learn to enjoy the company and the companionship of your self. You are a

pretty good fellow to know that we older folks hustle about so much of the time that you do not get to know what a good companion you can be to yourself. I log in the depth of the words is a good place to make that acquaintance. Then another quest of the same nature sleep out in the open at least one night and you are safer there than any and I placed outs. I know of. If you do not wish to go alone take a companion who is in sympathy with your quest. The noises of the night are different than those of the day. You may not be able to recognize any of them unless it be they who chatter of the great horned owl or the short melody of the northern one thousand of the white throated sparrow. You may hear a rabbit from the ground with one of his strong hind legs sending a

defiant message through the ground to other rabbits that he has discovered an intruder. Interesting how and why rabbits do this. You would never hear this signal code of rabbits unless you slept outdoors. Sometimes it is so quiet out that you can hear the silence. Did you ever hang a white sheet between two trees and then at night flash a light on the sheet. And that is a good way to make a collection of malls for malls work at night and are attracted by the light killing drying and mounting malls is an interesting question for the summer. Particularly if you get a good book on Mars and learn about the old you catch a drubbing a little molasses or honey on a stump out in the sunshine is a good way to attract butterflies for they are seeking sweets

during the day. If your mother or father would mix a little alcohol in the sweet substance that the butterflies would become groggy and you could catch them easily. If you learn if you want to learn about the great variety and beauty of these flying flowers the butterflies make a collection of them. As your quest this summer. The monarch butterfly is our most handsome one. These monarchs will be straggling back from the South quite soon. They lay their eggs on the milk weed only. And there you can find their caterpillars and make a cage out of wire out of screen wire that feed the caterpillars fresh leaves from the milk we grow it and watch it grow and shed its skin and make its crisis and finally come forth a creature as different from a caterpillar as a frog is from a tadpole. You know this happens of course

about. Have you ever seen it happen as one of your quests this summer. Find a meat eating plant. Our common pitcher plant found in peat bogs and Spagna Moss marshes is one of them. The funnel shaped leaves are traps that captured insects and our stomachs that devour them examined the inside of the funnel to see how nature is equipped. This plant to capture insects those hairs give forth a sweet liquor that acts as a bait and prevents the insects from escaping. These are a few of the quests just given by way of suggestion of quests in nature there is no. And of course other where it is so full of a number of things I am Shara we should all be as happy as kings and the most of the best things of life are freed. But there is one request that Ranger Mack is going to make of you and you will be going on many picnics this summer.

You will select the most beautiful sites for those picnics you have. We have so many of them. These beautiful places in Wisconsin don't you think that it is about as much a part of our education just about as much a part as a rhythm of geography spelling or any of the routine subjects. To learn how to keep our beautiful places beautiful to me that is one of the marks of an educated person. Even here at the university ice cream is not sold in cups because universities and university students throw the cups all over the campus after trips. Doesn't it make you just a bit heart sick to see an eroded or a beautiful spot littered with the leftovers of a picnic. So my last question for you for this summer. Is to leave

any place you visit no less beautiful because you were there. And now we have some important announcements to make as some of you have been waiting for our all year. A number of schools have been carrying on an adventure a quest in education in nature education. It is it is the conservation corner and log book activity as such a splendid work brings its own reward. We all know it but we do have some recognitions to make a Mr Arthur jargons and director of education of the state conservation department has been assisting in this work and will make those announcements Mr. Drugg Ansen. Thank you Ranger Mack. And good morning boys and girls. Each year it seems that the conservation lessons learned while a field of the Ranger Mac have been done better than the year before. In a way it seems that way to me. The

reports that were sent to us by the people who visited your schools and saw the work you did on your conservation corners were certainly fine. We hope the things you learned will bring you continued happiness and a fuller appreciation of nature's gifts and wonders and also that some of these understandings will help to keep our country great this year. Eighty eight schools were selected to receive awards awards have been grouped into three classifications. They are A and B awards and honorable mention. 20 schools were given the A award they will receive either a radio or a combination film strip and slide projector. If the school already has this equipment they'll receive a set of beautiful Autobahn bird slides with the company bird song records the school selected to receive the awards are. I'll give the name of the school and the Post Office

address in that order. Lower Farm or Valley School at Sparta the moone school at DANCY. Well because school it for Donia Beaver Dam school at Fremont sugar Grik school at ferry will Howlett school route 1 I should crash Ringle public school at Wrangel Crystal Springs school route to two rivers strong school at the light Rona public school at Verona the miller school at Toma St. Nicholas school at random Lake Pickett Memorial School at Pickett. Cary Vale public school at fery Vell Daisy Del school at Marathon. Angela's school at Sparta Roosevelt at LB woodlands school at Kiel Eastman School at Eastman and wall Ridge School at Eastman. A beautiful bird book and titled Birds of America will be

sent to the schools given a B award. These schools are. When economy public school it when it cani the Whipple school Waterloo real Valley School it Toma Boma school at ferry Ville center school at Cleveland St. school at East drawee sunrise school Marion Lakeview at Beaver Dam Dixon at Walla Tosa pleasant little pleasant view school and Capitol drive in Milwaukee. Then your coolie school and pray to Shane hop Hill School at Toma o Park School at Deerfield and are done school it was eco pick preschool it searing Rockdale at Rockdale Burleigh Valley School at red granite East Kerwin school at Stratford Grand River at Manchester Cloverdale at Black Crick

and never state graded school. Pleasant Hill School at Stoughton spring road at Nina Tustin school at Fremont the Main Street School Watertown route to Riverside School at Blair Highland public school onst in school it was the Longfellow school of Clintonville delle school at Le Farge Bonney school at Eastman Healy Memorial School at Temple sunrise school at an A1 and the Diamond Valley School at Augusta. Time does not permit me to read the names of the schools give an honorable mention. But these schools will be listed in the May issue of the conservation bulletin and letters have also been sent to all schools notifying them of any rewards they are to receive. Schools in this group that is the Honorable Mention group will receive a year's subscription to an outdoor conservation magazine prepared especially

for schools all schools who completed their conservation corner project as outlined by the Wisconsin School of the air will receive a certificate of merit signed by Ranger Mack HB McCarty director of the Wisconsin School of the air Ernest swift director of the conservation department and gator rar conservation commissioner. It's been nice talking to you and I know that Ranger Mack will want to say a parting word Ranger Mack. Thank you Mr. Dorgan and congratulations to you boys and girls and to your teachers. Behind the scenes in any other undertaking. There are folks who are working quietly and one of those is right here in the studio right here at W H J. And I'd like to extend thanks to Miss Arlene McAlary assistant director of the School of the air.

If we have attained any success as she is very very deeply responsible part of it and there will be three more broadcasts these will be rebroadcasts of the years trips of field which you traders would like to hear again. These will be your choices. So have a good summer. Laugh and sing and just be glad for everything. Be glad for morning and night for sun and stars that laugh with light for trees that chuckle in the breeze for singing birds and humming bees. The one with them and laugh along and weave their gladness in your song. And now let us say the Indian farewell and to gather our shot away across the distance that separates us already made of the Great Spirit.

But sunshine in your heart. Today and power are heap much. The familiar Indian farewell brings us to the end of our year of trips afield with Ranger MC Now for that special announcement about next week. The regular nature trips are over for this year but next week at the same time we're going to rebroadcast one of your three favorite programs. It's the program about the dog and his relatives involving weeks you'll hear snakes alive and modern Paul Bunyan. So be ready next week at this time boys and girls and we'll be back to take you on another radio hike down the nature trail. This is the Wisconsin School of the air.