Show E EVERY ERY PLANT IS A LIVING FACTORY WITH MACHINERY TERY RUN BY SUNSHINE TE POWER f T l. LATS are aro just like us us they have hav to have hae food to make them grow p r l where is tho the food and how hov do they find it T Every green leaf lea is a factory to make food for tor the tho plant tho ho green reon pulp In time the leaf is 18 the machinery the leaves get the tho raw material from froni the sap and from rom tho the air and the machinery unites them and makes them into plant food This is IR mostly starch for this is the tho chief food tood of plants they require some Romo other kinds of or food also says sas John Spencer known as Uncle John to many children in New ew York The machinery ml is run b by sunshine power HO o tho the loaf leaf factory can make mako nothing without lI light ht tho the leaf lent fa factories begin to work as soon noon as ns tho the sun oun rises and only stop atop working when it sets sotA But the starch has haft to tobe tobe tobo be bo changed to sugar before the tho baby growing tips of or the plant can use it for nourishment and growth and so tho the loaves after making the starch from tho the sap and tho the air nil are aro obliged to digest It It changing Ing tho starch h to sugar for the growing growing- parts of or the plant feed teed upon sweet sap Although the starch factory In tho the leaves can ran work only during th the tho day time tho the l leaves can change the tho starch to sugar during the night So Sotar far tar as aB wo we know there I is no starch In tho the whom world which Is not made In iti tho the lea leaf factories From United States School Garden Arm Army I |