300 Junior Naturalist Monthly, 



1. Where do you more often see a chipmunk, on the ground or in 

 the trees? 



2. What are its colors above and below? 



3. Look at the stripes on its back. How many are there? How 

 far do they extend on the back? 



4. In what way does the chipmunk's tail differ from that of the red 

 squirrel? 



5. How far from the ground on a tree have you seen a chipmunk? 

 Does it ever jump from bough to bough? 



6. How does it carry its food? 



7. What different kinds of food have you seen a chipmunk eating? 

 What seeds does it distribute? Do you think that a chipmunk has 

 ■ever planted a tree? 



8. Is it a useful tenant on a farm? Give a reason for your answer. 



9. It is said that chipmunks are easily tamed. We should like to 

 know what success Junior Naturalists have had in gaining their 

 confidence. 



LESSON IV.— SOMETHING ABOUT SOIL. 



Last spring when we asked the members of the Junior Naturalist 

 Club to prepare for us some work on soils we did not feel at all sure 

 that they would be willing to do it. Uncle John was very much 

 pleased, however, to find that a large number of children wrote ex- 

 cellent letters on this subject. When reading some of the letters we 

 could not tell whether the children had actually done the work them- 

 selves or whether they had learned their facts from others. In all 

 the experiments, let us know just what part you took in them. The 

 following letter pleased us very much: 



Dear Uncle John: — 



I will write and tell you all I know about soils. I experimented to-day by 

 putting some dirt into a tin and put the tin on some coals for a while. When I 

 took it off and looked at it carefully, I found the dirt that was burned was much 

 softer than the other soil and that the lumps had all gone out and it looked like 

 ashes. We named five soils. We think the mucky soil is the best for flowers. 

 To-day some of us went into the woods to get some mucky soil. Your nephew, 



Jesse. 



The above letter tells us that Jesse gathered soil, that he looked 

 at it carefully, and that he experimented, as we asked him to do. 

 Here is another good letter : 



Dear Unde John: — 



I have looked for and found a good many kinds of soils. The wet and dry, 

 stony, gravelly, coarse grained and fine grained soils. Some of the: soils were: 



