. Annual report of the Agricultural Experiment Station. Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). 344 Junior Naturalist Monthly. 3. Notice the teasel in the field in late autumn. How do you think it distributes its seeds? In what w^ay do you think the wind might be helpful to the plant in distributing its seeds? 4. Why is the teasel cultivated? 5. Notice the blossoms of the teasel. Where are they? What color are the blossoms? 6. How long does a teasel plant live? LESSON HI. HOAIES FOR OUTDOOR FOLK It happens very often that boys and girls find little
. Annual report of the Agricultural Experiment Station. Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). 344 Junior Naturalist Monthly. 3. Notice the teasel in the field in late autumn. How do you think it distributes its seeds? In what w^ay do you think the wind might be helpful to the plant in distributing its seeds? 4. Why is the teasel cultivated? 5. Notice the blossoms of the teasel. Where are they? What color are the blossoms? 6. How long does a teasel plant live? LESSON HI. HOAIES FOR OUTDOOR FOLK It happens very often that boys and girls find little wild creatures on their way to school; a butterfly, perhaps, a cricket, some pollywogs, a toad, or a turtle. These outdoor folk would be interesting in the school- room if you had some place to keep them. Why not have an aquarium jar (Fig. 3) for the water folk, and for little land animals, you might have a terrarium (Fig. 4), an enclosed bit of earth in which things will live and grow? If there is a manual training department connected with your school, the teacher will probably let you make a terrarium similar to that illustrated in Fig. 4, or some friendly carpenter may be willing to help the boys make one outside of school hours. The front is made of glass and the sides and top of wire screening. The top is fastened on one side by means of hinges, and can be raised easily when the little guests are placed in their indoor home. Boys and girls who are interested in farms and gardens shouUl know the wild life about them, for many of the outdoor crea- tures are either friends or enemies to the farmer and gar- dener. If you become acquainted with them you may be able to induce some that are -An aquarian jar. Watching some of the water folk, friendly to act as farm hands. The terrarium illustrated in Fig. 4 has sheltered many an interesting little wanderer. Let me sec how man}- I can remember:— Toads, sala- manders, crickets, long-horned grasshoppers, short-horned grasshoppers
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