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turns pink then you have sour soil. You will have to do something 

 to your soil. Put some lime on it and leave it awhile. You are 

 supposed to use a thousand pounds to an acre but if your garden 

 is not quite as big as that you may use one pound to forty square 

 feet. 



Helen Wall, Dent School 



THE EARTHWORM GARDENER. 



Long before men had learned to till the soil, there was a 

 gardener hard at work preparing the soil for the future use of men. 

 This gardener's nam.e was earthworm. He was busy grinding 

 the soil and making it fine so that it wovdd hold the water that 

 plants need in order to live. This gardener also added lime to 

 make the soil rich. He made channels through which air and water 

 could get into the soil. Another thing he did was to plant seeds 

 which lay on top of the soil. 



If all these things were added together we would see how much 

 this little gardener has done for us. 



Lester Buckley 



A garden helper. 

 One day I saw a toad sitting under a flower. I was about to 

 chase him when he stuck his tongue out and caught a caterpillar, 

 and ate it. After that I got some more toads and put them in 

 different parts of the garden. In a few days I didn't see a cater- 

 pillar. After a while I noticed that toads ate flies and gnats, 

 too. I think toads are very useful in killing insects. If every- 

 body had toads in the garden there wouldn't be many insects. 



Charles Cook, Wheatley School 



BIRD study class, 1921 



My entrance into the Audubon's Society Bird Study Class was 

 entirely by accident; the meie X mark on a paper drawn from a 

 hat. 



We had three lessons and two hikes to get a certificate. I 

 did all of them and found it very interesting. In the lessons we 

 studied stuffed specimens, and had a grand review at the last. 

 On the hikes a number of children went off together and rambled 

 through the many paths in or around the Zoo, often seeing as 

 many as fifty living specimens. When the classes were finished 

 I felt I had acquired much information about our feathered friends 

 and I hope I shall never forget it. 



Canfield Marsh, Powell School 



