Show Out of Doors in the West Sketches of Natural History in the Rocky Mountain Plateau Edited by J. H. Professor of Nature Study in the University of Utah On the Wings of the Over and A Story of the Pioneers of the Seed Travelers that or Way of the Where forest trees of one or several kinds are cut trees of an entirely different kind often up in their There are places near the Atlantic coast from which the pine forests have been removed for making railway and the new trees have been This change in the species of trees means different birds and The substitutions thus going on in our own mountains would form the basis of some interesting As we have primitive man with him in his migrations the seeds of the plants that he was accustomed to but in addition to his cultivated weeds somehow contrived to follow Weeds that grow only where plants' are cultivated mingle their seeds with those of the field and unless great care is taken will be carried with them to the new Exported hay always takes- with it many seeds from the The ballast of vessels is a good hiding place for and foreign plants vicinity of usually spring up in the seaport The wool of South America and other Places conveys to the land to which it is shipped many seeds that cling to the fleeces of the browsing pearly all of our weeds in cultivated fields were thus brought from the wayside which grows everywhere this is regarded by the Indians as having been brought in the they call it the Common Western Fall At the the stiff pale aster at the The cows arc said to eat the native and to reject the European The two are so much alike that for a time the botanists could not distinguish though the cows and the Indians never failed to do Learn to Know the Every as we teachers of nature work should be taught to-recognize at sight and should be trained to destroy our seven worst These are the the prickly the the wild morning the wild the and the squirrel tail Last year we prepared a list of harmful plants frequent in this The common name was first then technical then the size and ar- of the then the best known method for eradicating the and the grade to which it is most suitable for Other information will be found in Farmers' and How to Kill Farmers' bulletins are sent free to any address upon application to the secretary of D. 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Farmers and teachers should write for those mentioned in these as we have are not useless they supply 1 materials for the best kinds of lesson work work in the schools and cover the bare earth with an interesting and varied carpet that presents at every turn something new in pattern or T Several Beautiful Many of the weeds' have showy Our pret- fall weeds include the prickly y common evening golden These furnish excellent material for art Others that go to seed in September are the downy heads of the large bull in all their silken the downy-winged and parachute seeds of the rabbit brush of several kinds also several asters in the Canada r Third grade pupils should be permitted to go out and make a collection of these winged seed travelers and paste them upon They can be trained to J identify and describe the different kinds at Four-Parted During the last week the late autumn evening is' sometimes seen blooming in great numbers in moist or hilly the K-bright yellow flashing out from the midst of the dryer vegetation like so many golden This beautiful species has large four-parted which admirably relate it to the work of fourth Among the mustard all with flowers four- but with stamens four long and two the wild hedge the water Nasturtium and the cultivated radish in gardens are still blooming In observing the radish in learn why the large root is now hollow and worthless as all the nutriment having gone to the pods and which are now the more edible parts find out when the radish should be plant- 3 how in what kind how cared Prickly Lettuce in all harvested and decide and re the fourth grade pupils may with ip the so 1 ha nt the the seve raised by the the lettuce by a celery by the your school may of the proa and then sell the remainder before school also be had Garden pinks and may studies tor and make pretty observational drawing and for noting the parts of the and pistil-their colors and with Weeds should be studied because they interfere And it is these field and the success of our garden weeds that should figure chiefly in nature In school gardening this makes a very practical Holtz maintains that pupils should be to recognize and name the commoner to know something about their life and the chief j methods of Many of them are very con and suitable for teaching the life of plants in The The same writer describes the common broad-leaved plantain as one of the best show children the bad effects of Its leaves lie in a rosette on the thereby effectually shading to death any hapless plant that may be near it and not able to outgrow its This the chief reason why it is undesirable on Grass is very sensitive to shading and needs all the light it can If a board is left for a week in one place on the the grass turns a sickly yellow or and in time it would die from the The plantain has the same It thrives best in heavy in shady where the grass already at only a precarious In a comparatively short time the grass may be replaced by Plantain is a hardy plant a characteristic of most weeds capable of enduring and terminal are in the ground or very close to much such as clipping with a lawn being stepped The most vital the root and stem and thus protected from serious If the large leaves are cut others spring up from the bud The hardiness and ease of dispersal of the plantain is shown universal occurrence in north temperate As Pests and Observation will prove that cultivated flowers and crops are usually exotics or delicate wild and hardy of VT once They need man's competition for light and lit r Weeds or their seeds often contaminate fiZ I necessitating troublesome PS' methods of clover and grass JL Clover sometimes 1 contains as much per cent of weed seed iT or fifty with five per cent f mustard Hay 18 often bed squirrel tail by Russian Thistle in all Young plant at blossom and seed at Some weeds are poisonous to man and The notorious loco weed of the western plains has killed many sheep and Jamestown weed grows very commonly in city lots and country It is a member of the nightshade Children are killed by eating the Poison ivy may be classed weeds in this It is an almost universal pest in this Children should be taught to recognize and avoid though some are with its prickly hairs that contain a burning is another weed to be recognized and |