trafton] outline OF NATURE-STUDY 157 



Problems — 



Which is the best method of setting out strawberries? 



How may strawberries be obtained in the fall of the same year the 



plants are set out? 

 How does the care of the strawberry for the first season differ from 



the care the second and third seasons? 

 How does the method of raising raspberries differ from the method of 



raising strawberries? 

 How do fruit growers get new plants of strawberries, raspberries and 



currants? 

 How may grapes be raised in Minnesota? 

 How do dwarf fruits differ from the ordinary kinds? 



3. Poultry keeping. 



Financial returns; varieties, housing, feeding, hatching eggs, 

 rearing chicks. 

 Problems — 



What are the interesting things about poultry keeping? 



What conditions must a good house meet? 



How should poultry be fed? 



Which is the better method of hatching eggs by incubator or hen? 



4. Bee keeping, 



Financial returns; kinds of bees, life of the hive, swarming, 

 wintering. 

 Problems — 



What advantage does bee keeping have over poultry keeping? 

 What disadvantages? 



What care should be given bees during the swarming season? 

 How should bees be wintered in this climate? 



Which offers better opportunities for financial returns, bee keeping 

 or poultry keeping? 

 HI. Enemies of the Garden. 



Insects, such as cut worm, cucumber beetle, potato beetle, squash bug, 



corn ear worm, white grub. 

 Problems — 



What harm is done by each of these insects? 

 What is the remedy for each? 



IV. Friends of the Garden. 

 I. Birds. 

 N A. Birds of the garden and orchard, such as chickadee, cuckoc 



kingbird, nuthatch, phcebe, wood thrush, woodpeckers, 

 grosbeak, robin, wren, bluebird, Baltimore oriole. 



B. Attracting bird friends to the yard and garden by providing 



nesting boxes, fountains, and planting shrubs to furnish 

 fruit. 



C. Bird songs; how made (syrinx), time of day and season 



given, differences, reproduction on musical scale. 



D. Plumage of birds; molting, differences in color according to 



age, sex, and season. 



