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out whether there are any beech trees in your vicinity. I have rarely 

 gone into a village or rural community in which I did not find some 

 person who knew the trees. Is there not a farmer in your community 

 who knows the trees and will come to the school and talk about them 

 some day? This will help boys and girls a great deal. 



Beginning with the 

 very first days of 

 spring, look for 

 forms of life that 

 you find in connec- 

 tion with the trees 

 you have studied. 

 Notice whether there 

 Observe zvorking roofs and boring tips. are any insects about 



the trees ; whether 

 the birds build their nests in them ; whether the squirrels play about the 

 branches. You will find some interesting life in connection with most 

 trees. I associate one of the most beautiful moths that I know with 

 beech woods. When its wings are closed it looks like a part of the bark 

 of the beech tree, while the under wings are very beautifully colored. 

 The fact that the wings resemble the bark protects this moth from the 

 birds. Another association that I have with beech woods is the song 

 of the Pe-wee. I wish you would learn the little poem at the beginning 

 of this lesson and sometime go into the beech wood 



" That low entrancing note to hear. — 

 Pe-wee! Pe-wee! Peer!" 



Keep a record this year of all the places in which you hear a Pe-wee. 



TESTING SEEDS. 

 Ada E. Georgia. 



Plowing, harrowing, rolling, drilling in the seed, cultivating and 

 harvesting in big fields measured by acres ; spading, hoeing, raking, 

 marking by line, and sowing seed by hand in little gardens, are all very 

 hard work, though we enjoy doing it very much when we think of the 

 large rewards. For the rewards are large, and the real wealth of any 

 land lies in what grows from its soil. Even boys and girls, if they think 

 a moment, can see that this must be true. 



But it is harder still to see our labor wasted, and sometimes, after 

 all the work of preparation, the seed does not " come up," and we have 

 to try again, with the same crop, or if too late for that, with some 

 other crop. 



