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different colored. The black soil is rich and that is what we have in our garden 

 and flower beds. We took a pail of sandy and clayey soil and studied it. Then 

 in some soil we found sticks, roots and other decayed plants. This is what makes 

 the soil rich. 



When we went into the woods Arbor Day to get flowers and plants we found 

 the rich soil by the creek. Your niece, 



Eva. 



We learn from Eva's letter that after she had studied soils in the 

 school room, she observed them out of doors. 



This year we 

 hope to . give 

 several lessons on 

 soils and we want 

 you to get some 

 material for them 

 during the fall 

 days. It would be 

 a good idea to 

 take a field trip 

 for the purpose of 

 collecting soils. 

 Get some from the 

 garden, some from 

 open fields, and 

 some from the 

 woods. Try to 

 find as many dif- 

 ferent kinds as 

 possible. It will 

 be well to have 

 four or five paper 



bags or glass fruit-cans \vith you so that you can take several 

 samples back to your school room. On each bag or can paste a 

 piece of white paper on which write where you found the soil. 

 Put the soils into the school room cupboard until we ask you to 

 make some experiments. Be sure to \\Tite and tell us whether you 

 have collected the samples. 



5. The chipmunk boy. 



LESSON v.— HOW CAN WE PROTECT THE WILD FLOWERS? 



Have you ever thought how much we should miss the spring flowers 

 if they no longer appeared in the wood and along the wayside? What 

 if the trailing arbutus and the hepatica should never come to us again? 



