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3. Little wild animals of field and wood. 



4. Domestic animals. 



5. Crops. 



6. Weeds. 



7. Wild-Flowers. 



8. Trees. 



9. Insects. Useful and harmful insects. 



What a great many things you can learn ! If you should attend 

 school five or six years, and all that time you should spend a small part 

 of each day studying the great farm that belongs to us all, you would 

 know a great deal that would be useful and interesting later in life. 



THE NATURE-STUDY CORNER. 



Ask your teacher if you may have one corner of the schoolroom for 

 your nature-study materials. Tell her you will keep everything neat 

 and attractive in this corner. There should be a table so that all your 

 specimens can be placed on it until your teacher has time to talk with 

 you about them. You will bring in specimens of trees, plants, insects 

 and other things that you find, and if you put them on the table in neat 

 order, the teacher will find it more convenient to study them with you. 

 If you have plant specimens put the stems in water. If they are laid 

 down carelessly they will soon wither. 



Sometimes your teacher cannot tell you anything about your speci- 

 men. No one knows all things out-of-doors. It will be a good idea, 

 therefore, to have a shelf in the corner for Nature-Study books so that 

 you may consult them. Perhaps your Trustees or Board of Education 

 will provide a few books for this purpose. Write to your Superintendent 

 of Schools or your School Commissioner about this. You will need at 

 least five books and I would recommend the following: 



"Bird Life," Chapman; "Bird Neighbors," Neltje Blanchan; 

 " Insect Life," Comstock ; " Field Book of American Wild Flowers," 

 Schuyler-Matthews, or " How to Know the Wild Flowers," Dana; " Our 

 Native Trees," Harriet L. Keeler. 



THE COMMON DAISY AND BLACK-EYED SUSAN. 



The common white daisy is known to every child. You like to see 

 it, you like to gather it, you like to make daisy chains. As naturalists 

 you ought really to know the daisy and find out whether it is a wise 

 thing to let it grow on your farm. 



Take up a daisy plant, root and all, and make a drawing of the 

 root if you can. Tell Uncle John whether you found it difficult to get 



