KINDS OF SOIL. 3

5. Kinds of Soil.

Which is the finer, loam or sand? Loam or clay?

Pour some water on loam, on sand and on clay.!
Into which does the water sink most quickly ?

Which dries soonest, the loam, the sand or the
clay ?

What becomes of plants that die, and of leaves
that fall?

Find as many kinds of soil as you can.
kind in a bottle by itself.

What kind of soil covers the fields

Put each

See the balloon! It is floating im the clear
air, far above the clouds.

-7. Loose Soil.®

Pour some water on hard ground. Wait two
minutes, then dig and see how far the water has
settled.

Loosen a little patch of ground with a spade, and
pour on some water. After two minutes, find out

how far it has gone into the soil.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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6. Work of Water.’

 

How hard-it rains!
The river is swift and muddy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Where does the muddy water
come from?

Let us go out on the side of
the hill. Can you see the tiny
streams or rills which the rain
makes? Look closely! They are
very small.

Many of the rills are muddy.
These are washing away the
finest soil. Watch the rills that
are rollmg sand down the steep
places.

The rills cannot carry sand very
far. They must leave it in the
hollows and on the level places.
Can ‘you tell why?

What will become of. the fine soil that
-makes the rills muddy? The little streams
will carry some of it down to the river.

1 A small box of each will answer for the entire class.

2 WEATHER Recorp.—In a notebook keep a daily
record of the weather. In the afternoon write whether the
day has been hot, warm, cool or cold; clear, cloudy, rainy or
snowy; calm or windy. Be sure to write the date.

This record will show you how to keep yours.

‘Dec. 6 . warm
te os see. (Cold!

rainy
clear

windy
windy

 

 

Rainstorm,

Farmers plow in order to turn up fresh soil, and to
loosen it, so that the rain can easily settle.
Do you know what frost does to: the soil ?

Dec. 8 . cool
De es seo!

calm
windy

clear *
rainy

Keep the record every school day for a year. Perhaps
you can also take notes for holidays. At the end of the
year you can count and find out which month has had the
greatest number of warm days, rainy days, etc.

’ Home work for pupils who wish to try the exper-
iment. ;