APK 24 1903 



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question nature about what you have seen, and try to 

 solve some of the problems she sets you. 



QUESTIONS 



1. What is meant by the expression ^'struggle for 

 existence"? 



2. Write a two hundred word story of some such 

 struggle which you have seen. 



3. Who was Herbert Spencer? Study something of 

 his life and writings and of Charles Darwin. 



4. Select some plant and mark it by placing a small 

 stick or toothpick near it. Make a drawing of this plant, 

 beginning with the first leaves of the plant. Make a 

 drawing of the same plant once each week until mature. 

 Let each pupil select the plant whose picture history he 

 wishes to keep. 



5. Write a brief description of the way in which a 

 morning glory climbs. Describe the manner in which a 

 grape vine climbs. 



6. How many kinds of tendrils have you seen? 



AGRICULTORE IN SDPPLEMENTARY READING. 



Prof. Frank H. Hall, one of the most prominent educators and text-book 

 writers of Illinois, in an address before the State Farmers' Institute at 

 Blooming-ton, 111. .'Feb. 25, 1903, made the following statement: 



"The teachers and pupils of the public schools should be provided at 

 public expense with 'supplementary reading' and library volumes that 

 have a distinctively agricultural bearing. 



"For supplementary reading of this kind I most heartily commend the 

 little leaflets published by C. M. Parker, of Taylor^'ille. These are— 

 The Study of Farm Crops, by Prof. Shamel. 

 The Study of Farm Animals, by Dean Davenport. 

 The Study of Horticulture, by Prof. Blair. 



"There are thirty-six of these leaflets and they are sold at one cent a 

 copy in quantities of ten or more. They were prepared especially for 

 school use by the very men upon whom you are calling for work in your 

 institutes until they are taxed to the full limit of their strength. 



"There can be no mistake in putting these leaflets into the hands of 

 your children." 



