CHURCHILL] 



NATURE-STUDY 



373 



GRADE V 



ickens, poultry rais- 

 ng. 



GRADE VI 



Care, feeding and im- 

 provement of stock, 

 pigs. 



GRADE VII 



Care, feeding and im- 

 provement of stock, 

 cows. 



GRADE VIII 



Care, feeding and im- 

 provement of stock, 

 horses. 



GRADE IX 



Egg and milk records; 

 Pig-feeding contests. 



ig fisher, chewink, 

 parrow hawk, sap 

 ucker, Alaska robin, 

 uffed grouse. 



Crossbill, woodpewee. White crown sparrow 



house wren, winter 

 wren, yellow warbler 

 western tanager 

 sharp tailed and sooty 

 grouse 



ruby crowned kinglet, 

 golden crowned king- 

 let, Audubon's warb- 

 bler, hermit thrush, 

 russet backed thrush, 

 sage-hen. 



Red headed wood- Sparrows 



warblers, 



pecker, k i 1 d e e r 

 spotted sandpiper, 

 purple finch, ducks, 

 geese, swans 

 Game bird laws. State 

 and national. 



thrushes, pigeons, 

 grouse, gulls, terns, 

 herons, pelicans, 

 loons, hawks, owls, 

 snipes. 



nt lice and lady bird, 

 at fleas, mosquitoes, 

 abbage butterflies 

 nd their parasites. 



Galls, oak, willow, rose 

 cut worms, army 

 worms, sphynxes. 



House flies, bot flies, 

 stable flies, horn flies 



ley, cabbage, kale or 

 aulifiower. 



Field, sweet or pop corn 



musk melons. 



Alfalfa, water melons. 



Dies. 



Pears, quinces, grafting. 



Logan or phenomenal 

 berries. 



Wasps, ants, honey 

 bees, bumble bees, 

 chinch bugs. 



Record hill of potatoes, 

 Wheat, celery. 



Scale insects, San Jose 

 scale ; honey bee and 

 cross pollination of 

 fruits; sprays for 

 rust. 



Record hill of potatoes, 



tomatoes or peppers. 



Raspberries, blackber- 

 ries; keep record of 

 plot. 



Currants, gooseberries, 

 strawberries; keep 

 record of plot. 



nulus, cat ears, tiger 

 ly, mayweed, red- 

 Dot, mullein, tar 

 'eed. 



Hillside pink, sundial, 

 Solomon's seal, chick 

 weed, filover, dog 

 fennel, lamb's quar- 

 ters. 



Mission bells, Indian 

 paint brush, fox 

 glove, foxtail grass, 

 couch grass, vile 

 grass, Canada thistle, 

 goat weed, St. John's 

 wort. 



Columbine, golden rod 



asters, mallow. 

 Seed testing, weed seeds 



in grains, clovers, 



grass and garden 



seeds. 



Lady slipper, orchids, 

 grasses in bloom, 

 grass seed. 



., Cottonwood, red 

 ;dar, maple. Port 

 Tford cedar, chest- 

 ut. 



Pine, dogwood, alder 

 crabapple. 



Salal, red or blue elder, 

 yew. 



Grafting and budding. 



Grafting and budding. 



aids and yeasts, 

 town rot of fruit. 



Apple scab, peach leaf 

 curl, rose mildew. 



Root bacteria, grain 

 smuts, fruit moulds 

 grape mildew. 



Bacteria, pear and 

 apple blight, sprays 

 for fungi. 



s and mice destruc- 

 veness and trapping 

 lation to plague ; 

 all frog. 



Pocket gopher, moles, 

 diggers, earth worms, 

 newts, salamanders. 



Jack rabbit, cotton tail, 

 weasel. State Fish 

 and Game Commis- 

 sion, fish hatcheries, 

 state laws for food 

 and game fishes. 



Mink, raccoon, otter 

 beaver, muskrat, 

 skunk. 



Bacteria, tuberculosis, 

 typhoid, diphtheria, 

 intelligent cleanliness 

 board of health bulle- 

 tins, preserving. 



Fur farming. 



seeds in grades VI to IX. Focus interest on improvement of 

 varieties by seed selection and plant breeding in grades VIII and 

 IX. 



Under "trees", call attention to forest fire laws in all grades. 

 Notice season of blooming of tree and of ripening of seed ; make a 

 school collection of flowers and seeds, and study methods of storing 

 and planting the seeds. Develop interest especially in i^lanting 

 nut trees. As the American chestnut is being quite ])ossibly 

 exterminated from eastern North America by the chestnut blight, 

 it would be well if quantities of seed, safely free from spores of the 



