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shade and beauty afford. We seem to feel instinctively that 

 trees must surround our most sacred things. We plant trees 

 about our homes, we bring the Christmas tree into our Yule- 

 tide festivities; it was an ancient custom to plant a tree in 

 honor of the birth of a child, and we often plant trees at the 

 graves of our loved ones. As long;, as human life responds 

 to the beauty of trees, our landscape art will be conserved. 



NOTEBOOK QUESTIONS 



1. Name the forest trees that you know at sight. 



2. What are the two life processes going on in the living 

 tree? 



3. What are ideal forest conditions? 



4. Name five values which forests serve. 



5. What is meant by conservation of the forests? 



6. What are some agencies responsible for the conserva- 

 tion of our forests? Which can do the most? 



7. Name some practical work the farmer can do in pro- 

 viding a good wood lot on his farm. 



8. List some good trees for farm wood lot planting. 



PRACTICAL EXERCISES AND HOME PROJECTS 



1. Identifying 1 trees. Let the class in agriculture take 

 a walk with the teacher among the trees. Each pupil should 

 have notebook and pencil. Let the teacher point out the 

 trees and give each tree a number. Let each pupil take down 

 the number and opposite the number write down the kind 

 of tree he thinks it is. After naming a dozen or more trees, 

 return to the house, or be seated anywhere, and check up 



