HOME NATURE-STUDY COURSE. 



TEACHER'S LEAFLET. 



BASED UPON THE WORK FOR FOURTH, FIFTH AND SIXTH YEAR PUPILS AS 



OUTLINED IN THE SYLLABUS OF NATURE-STUDY AND AGRICULTURE 



ISSUED I'.Y THE NEW YORK STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT. 



With the leaflets of the coming year, the Home Nature-Study Course 

 will cease. Since 1906, the lessons of this Course have been devoted 

 to the elucidation of the State Syllabus of Nature-Study and Agricul- 

 ture, and type lessons have been given on about one hundred topics, 

 including twenty animals, sixteen birds, twelve insects, twenty-four 

 plants, eighteen trees, and six lessons on soils and several on astronomy. 



Six thousand of each issue of the leaflets have been distributed each 

 year among the teachers of the State ; and those teachers who have 

 preserved their copies have no material which essentially covers the 

 work of the Syllabus to the seventh grade, where agriculture takes the 

 place of nature-study. The Home Nature-Study Course for the current 

 year will cover the most important required subjects which we have 

 not yet discussed. 



MUSHROOMS AND OTHER FUNGI 



When we find plants with no green parts, which grow and thrive 

 although unable to manufacture their own organic food through the 

 alchemy of chloro- 

 phyl, sunlight and 

 air, we may safely 

 infer that in one 

 way or another they 

 gain the products of 

 this alchemy at sec- 

 ond hand. Such 

 plants are either 

 parasites or sapro- 

 phytes; if parasites, 

 llicy steal the food 

 from the cells of liv- 



mg i>lants ; if sapro- jf^^ common-edible mushroom in early stages showing the 

 phytes, they live on giiu covered with veil. 



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