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G4 BY THE WAYSIDE 
The bears, skunks, snakes, frogs and 
toads go to sleep in the fall and do not 
wake until spring. The deer, fox, wolf, 
horse and cattle put on warm coats. 
Many of the birds go farther south for 
the winter, others put on warmer feathers 
and stay here. The sparrows, snowbirds 
brown creepers, nuthatch and junco be¬ 
long to the latter class. 
Aegd 13. Warden Nelson. 
Corn. 
Corn must have the best kind of land 
you hatfe to make it grow and ripen in 
our state. Corn must be planted about 
the middle of May. If the ground is very 
wet, the corn will not grow well. It 
must be planted about three feet apart. 
The more you cultivate it the better it is 
for the corn. Cultivating also keeps the 
weeds out. 
The top of the corn is part of the blos¬ 
som, and the silk is the other part. 
When the wind blows, it blows the pol¬ 
len onto the silks, and that makes the 
kernels grow. If the pollen did not 
blow on the silks there would be no ker¬ 
nels on the cobs. The pollen begins to 
blow on the silk in August. 
After a while the farmers cut the corn 
and put it in shocks. Then they let it 
stand for about two weeks when they 
husk it. Some of the corn they use for 
seed to plant the next year. The stalk 
is jointed. It is soft and white inside. 
It has long green leaves. They have 
parallel veins in them. When the corn 
is shelled, they give it to the chickens, 
but it is mostly fed to hogs in the ear. 
Edna Durdel. 
Under the Cedars. 
The following letter was kindly sent by 
Miss Drummond for publication in By 
The Wayside.” 
My Dear Miss Drummond: 
Thank you for the little card: it was so 
very pretty and such a nice, fat robin. 
I haven’t seen anv birds this winter 
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except the bluejavs, hairies, downies, 
and the everlasting Englishes, as we call 
them. I think I have hardly seen a 
chickadee and I saw my first nuthatch, 
the white-breasted, only yesterday. 
Mamma has seen more of the nuthatches 
than I have though. 
I am in mv first year High School this 
year and enjoy it very much. Every 
morning one of the teachers leads a fif¬ 
teen minutes program, but each Friday 
one of the classes must lead. Sometimes 
it is pretty hard to think of something 
new and original. Our class had to be 
organized before we began. One of my 
friends is president and I am first vice 
president. For our first program we 
wanted to do something especially good, 
for we are the poor, abused “Freshies.” 
At last we hit on a “Bird Program” and 
really it was the finest class program we 
have had yet. We took half an hour in¬ 
stead of the fifteen minutes. We had 
short interesting articles on blue jays, 
kingfishers, swallows and swifts and I 
had a long one on the aigrettes. Then 
there were two little poems, one on the 
“Chickadee D. D.” and the nuthatch, and 
then to finish off with, one of our bovs 
read descriptions, in verse and prose, of 
two or three common birds for the rest 
of us to guess. 
We felt very proud, for even the seniors 
told the president and me that our pro¬ 
gram was fine! 
I know how busv you must be, but 
sometime when you have a moment’s 
time to chat with me I shall be verv 
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glad. 
With much love, 
Sincerely, 
January 11th. Muriel Lampert. 
