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necting with the soil dies. The dodder cUngs so closely to the alfalfa 

 stem that it is difficult to kill. It should not be permitted to go to 

 seed. Dodder is becoming a serious pest in New York alfalfa fields, 

 and farmers should be very careful to sow no alfalfa containing dodder 

 seed. The College of Agriculture will undertake to determine 

 dodder seed in any samples of alfalfa seed sent in by the farmers of 

 the state. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



LEAVES. 

 Cornell Teachers Leaflet No. 8. 



HOW TREES LOOK IN 

 WINTER. 



Cornell Home Nature-Study 

 Leaflet, Vol. 5, No. 2. 



STUDY OF A TREE. 



Our Native Trees, Keeler, 

 Scribner's, $2. 



SEED DISTRIBUTION. 



Cornell Teachers Leaflet No. 

 15. 



Seed Dispersal, Beal, Ginn & 

 Co., $.40. 



Little Wanderers, Morley, Ginn & Co. $.35. 

 Plants and Their Children, Dana, American Book Co. $.65. 

 First Studies of Plant Life, Atkinson, Ginn & Co. $.70. 



Chapters on seed distribution in botanical text books by Bergen, Bailey, Coul- 

 ter and others. 



THE CHIPMUNK. 

 American Animals, Stone and Cram, Doubleday, Page & Co. $4. 

 Squirrels and other Fur Bearers, Burroughs, Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1. 

 Familiar Life in Field and Forest, Mathews, Appleton's. $1.75. 

 Four-Footed Americans, Wright, Macmillan's. $1.50. 

 Wild Neighbors, Ingersoll, Harper's. $1..50. 



A certificate will he granted to those who satisfactorily complete teii 

 lessons or the year's work. 



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