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Rural School Leaflet. 



the material is being mixed with leaves and plant stems which slowly 

 decay ; that there are worms and insects which live in the soil and not 

 only burrow through it but feed upon the soil particles and the bits of 

 plants they find in it, and that all these are slowly affecting the character 

 of the soil. Look for these things in the field and see how they are related 

 and how one affects the other. 



Note. — Last month you made a collection of soils. In your field 

 trip this month you may find something different in soils. If so, and the 

 ground is not frozen take some back to the schoolroom. 



Fig. 40. — Gardeiiers in Black Brook School 



A RURAL SCHOOL GARDEN 



Eugene N. Boudreau 



After teaching in school district No. 10, Black Brook for a year, I 

 have come to love it and I will cherish it in my memory. It is about 

 seventy years old and one of the first frame buildings to be con- 

 structed in this section. On all sides are beautiful white birches inter- 

 spersed with balsams and cedars. So close do these trees crowd the 

 building that perhaps not more than an acre and a half of open 



