COLLEGE EXTENSION WORK IN AGRICULTURE. 99 



ing or telling children very much, but by giving a few hints regarding 

 some kind of mammals, birds, reptiles, fishes, insects, worms, soil, the 

 behavior of a brook, especially those temporarih' formed during a heavy 

 rain, the weather, soils, rocks, weeds, grasses, growing seeds, stocking 

 an aquarium and watching the movements of the contents. 



Children may be assisted in getting up a small museum or a show of 

 small animals and other objects. 



I name just a few suggestive questions out of the ordinary line : 



(1) Examine and count the seeds in eacli of five specimens of one 

 kind of apple, and compare with seeds from five other apples all of one 

 kind. 



(2) Find out whether a blade of June grass grows from the top, the 

 middle or the lower end. 



(3) Observe the time of year and what other peculiarities are to be 

 discovered in the shedding of leaves by evergreens. 



(4) See how many different kinds of plants can be found growing on 

 a square foot of land. 



(.5) How do horses, cattle, sheep, swine move their heads in biting off 

 the grass? 



(6) Observe how a horse, a cow, a sheep or a hog lies down and how 

 each gets up. 



(7) How many toes has a dog, a horse, a pig, a sheep? 



(8) Will pigs eat hay? 



W. J. Beal, Ph. D., Professor of Botany, 



Botanical Laboratory, Agricultural College. 



