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the dandelion, lambs'-quarters, purslane, and even burdock, are 

 eaten as greens. These and many others are good forage for 

 animals. 



Weeds sometimes grow luxuriantly in places where little else 

 could grow, thus clothing in verdure bare, unsightly spots. They 

 are usually the first to reclothe barren areas and often prepare 

 and render fit for cultivation the poorer soils, by loosening them 

 with their roots and by adding in their decay the necessary vege- 

 table mold. 



They are the advance guard of Nature in the reclamation of 

 land once tilled, but abandoned. They invade the fallow fields 

 and garden from the roadsides, and encroach upon the very door- 

 step of the deserted homestead, and for a season or so grow tri- 

 umphantly. 



In the shadow of their foliage tender tree seedlings spring 

 up, which later by their shade subdue the weeds. This interesting 

 succession of vegetation is readily observed in any abandoned 

 field. 



The Central Association of Science and Mathematics 

 Teachers will hold its annual meeting at Cleveland, Ohio, on 

 November 25th and 26th, 1910. 



Valuable reports of committees will be made and papers 

 given in biology, chemistry, earth science, mathematics and 

 physics. Addresses will be given by such men as Harvey W. 

 Wiley of Washington, D. C. ; Dayton C. Miller of Cleveland ; 

 David Eugene Smith of New York; J. F. Gilbert of Illinois; 

 Mark Jefferson of Ypsilanti, etc. The program contains the 

 names of forty-one speakers, brought together from eight states. 



Full information regarding the program, place of meeting, 

 hotels, railroad rates, etc., may be obtained by addressing the 

 Secretary, James F. Millis, 330 Webster Ave., Chicago, Illinois. 



The Chicago Nature-Study Club (section of the A. N.- 

 S. S.) enjoyed on September 24, a most successful field trip to 

 Western Springs, a suburb of Chicago, visiting Vaughan's nursery 

 and green-houses. Every courtesy and consideration was shown 

 them ; grafting and budding were demonstrated and details ex- 

 plained. Although rain fell freely, seventy members made the 

 .trip. Many more would have gone had the day been pleasant. 



Emily C. Westberg, 



President. 



