SOIL 135, 



Most of the above are supplied by the Orange Judd 

 and Macmillan companies, New York City. 



Practical Exercises 



1. Pupils should bring copies of farm papers from 

 their homes and start a reading table in the school. 



2. Send for copies of farm papers for the reading 

 table. 



3. Each pupil should report some interesting article 

 he has read in a farm paper. 



4. Write to the College of Agriculture for reading 

 circle books, and try to organize a reading circle among 

 the farmers of the community. 



SOIL 



During some mild day this month, let us go to vari- 

 ous places on our farm, gather samples of soil, and 

 make a more careful study of them in our farm labora- 

 tory. 



Since the soil is the place where all our plants must 

 grow, and since our animals must be fed from the 

 plants we raise, our soil is the real foundation of our 

 farm. 



How soils are formed. Geologists tell us that at 

 one time a great rock mass formed the surface of the 

 earth. Earthquakes probably made great breaks in 

 this rock mass, then by the decay of the rocks, the 

 grinding of the water and ice, and the depositing of 

 sediment, soil was formed. Water has been continually 



