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corn, and different kinds of grain. How many things there are that 

 would be worth the while in a Nature-Study Corner ! 



Now in Fig. i, you will see the picture of a schoolhouse in which 

 we are going to have a place for young folks to study some interesting 

 things that have to do with the outdoor world. I am sure there are 

 many boys and girls who would like to go to school in this neat, attrac- 

 tive building. Perhaps some day in your school district such a school 

 will be built or, at least, a work room added to the existing building. 

 In the building there are two rooms, one in which the children have 

 their regular lessons, the other in which they study soils, growing plants, 

 live animals, and other interesting things such as you have put in your 

 Nature-Study Corner. When the regular lessons are finished, the chil- 

 dren may go into this work room. I suppose, if there were such a room 

 in your school, you would learn your geography, arithmetic, and spelling 

 very rapidly so that you might go into a bright, sunny room in which 

 you might carry on a great many interesting experiments all by yourself. 



During the coming months, I am* going to publish in the Junior 

 Naturalist Monthly some of the lessons that the children have prepared 

 in the work room of this attractive schoolhouse. You may not have a 

 work room now but, if you use your Nature-Study Corner well, perhaps 

 the people in your district will be willing to provide a room in your 

 school building in which you can experiment along the lines of farm study. 



AN APPLE TWIG AND AN'aPPLE. 

 L. H. Bailey. ' 



In November I went over into the old kpple orchard. The trees 

 were bare. The wind had carried the leaves into heaps in the hollows 

 and along the fences. Here and there a cold-blue ^wild aster still bloomed. 

 A chipmunk chittered into a stone pile. '■ - r; 



I noticed many frost-bitten apples still clinging to the limbs. There 

 were decayed ones on the ground. There were several small piles of 

 fruit, that the owner had neglected, lying under the trees, and they were 

 now worthless. I thought that there had been much loss of fruit, and I 

 wondered why. If the fruit-grower had not made a profit from the trees, 

 perhaps the reason was partly his own. 



Not all the apples still clinging to the trees were frost-bitten and 

 decayed. I saw many small apples, no larger than the end of my finger, 

 standing stiff on their stems. Plainly these were apples that had died 

 when they were young. I wondered why. 



I took a branch home and photographed it. You have the engraving 

 in Fig. 2, Note that there are three dead young apples al the tip of one 



