376 NATURE-STUDY REVIEW 



What Causes Autumn Colors? 



The autumn colors are due to the breaking up of the chlorophyll 

 which gives different species of trees their peculiar colors. The 

 brightest colors are produced in swamps where it is cool and 

 moist before the frost occurs. A frost turns leaves brown and 

 not into bright colors. 



Nature Frost Weather Sun Season Sap 

 College and Normal 



School 2% 17% 4% 2% 1% 3% 



High School 8% 29% 11% 6% 1% 2% 



The majority believe that autumn colors are due to frost. 

 Weather and season answers are probably hazy notions of the 

 same idea. To answer this question by saying it is nature is 

 begging the question. All questions pertaining to nature could 

 be answered this way. 



Why Are Leaves Placed Around Shrubs for the Winter? 



This common practice amongst horticulturists is to keep the 

 frost in and not out as is commonly thought. The mulch pre- 

 vents a sudden freezing and thawing. The reasons given with 

 average % were: Warmth, 21%; frost, 37%; protection, 15%; 

 fertilizer, 8%. 



Would you Eat Butter or Drink Milk that had 

 Chemicals in it? 



No Depends Yes 



College and Normal School 21 % 9.0% 30% 



High School 49% 0.5% 17% 



In thinking of chemicals we are too apt to have a vision of 

 laboratories, bottles, and labels. If our perspective stops there 

 we do not have the broad outlook that chemistry should give us. 

 We see symbols and not ideas. The symbol is only a means to an 

 end. Our educational courses should not stop with the means 

 of seeing, these tools should be made to reproduce ideas. 



Have Some Friend Give You the Following Spelling Test. 



Potato, radish, pole beans, larva (of an insect), harelip, plantain, 

 dandelion, mullein, caterpillar, development, definite, occurrence, 

 pistil (of a flower), develop, squirrel, nasturtium, moss, diphtheria, 

 desiccate, paraffin, inoculate, tonsillitis, singular of species, 

 leaves, seedsmen, and bacteria. 



