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all need clothing.
We all need homes or shelter.
Without these provisions we should die.
How do we get our food, our clothing and our homes? How did people
get them when there were no stores and no money? Do you know of
any people who were compelled to get things in this way?
In a school reader, read about how primitive people lived.
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THE SOIL
We have two kinds of food, vegetable food, which grows from the
ground, and animal food. Name some foods of each kind. All plants
grow out of the earth or soil. The soil is necessary to produce our
animal food also. The meat we eat comes from sheep, cows, chickens
and other animals. These animals all live on vegetable food. Without
good soil there would be no grass nor hay. No grass would mean no
food for cows and sheep. So we see that all of our food really comes
from the soil.
Our clothing, too, is dependent upon the soil. The cotton plant grows
up out of the ground. The wool comes from the sheep, which eats grass
which grows from the ground.
Even our homes could not be built without products from the earth or
soil. Think how much wood is used in the construction of a house. The
trees which grow in the soil give us all the wood. Much iron, steel,
copper, brass and nickel are used in our homes. Stones and bricks form

part of many houses. All of these things come out of the earth. What a
wonderful thing is the soil! Out of it come our food, our clothing and
our shelter!
In one of your books read the wonderful story of how we obtain a loaf
of bread.
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Write a list of all the kinds of work you can think of which people do.
Copy this list of industries and place a cross beside the ones at which
any persons you know work:
Mining Printing and bookmaking Weaving Iron and steel work
Shipbuilding Glass-blowing Lumbering Pottery making Brickmaking
Meat packing Farming Dairying Manufacturing foods Manufacturing
clothing Ice cutting Manufacturing furniture
Which are town industries? Which are country industries?
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Would you like to go to-morrow to visit a factory in which some food
or clothing is manufactured? Look at the map of the town. Find your
school. Find the factory. How far must we go and in what direction?
What is the name of the place we will visit? Notice all of the things
made there. Try to remember all of the materials needed at the factory,
and find out where these materials come from. Try to remember just
how the articles are made. Find out what will be done with the things
that are manufactured. Notice the number and kinds of machines used.
See how many workmen are employed.
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AFTER THE TRIP
Write a letter to a friend in another class telling all about your visit.
Mention these points:

1. Where you went.
2. What was made.
3. How it was made.
4. The materials used.
5. The machinery.
6. The workmen.
7. The usefulness of the factory.
8. The care and skill of the workmen.
9. Anything else interesting about the trip.
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Every town and every village is a workshop. There are many workmen
here that do good, careful work. Some of the goods of our town may be
sent thousands of miles away to other people who need them. The
country people, too, do much useful work. Name some of the things
which our workmen do for other people living at a distance from us.
Read about the manufacture of the articles which you saw being made
at the factory.
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There are many workers in the world who do not make things with
their hands. Most of their work is done with their minds, though, of
course, their hands help too. Name some of these. What kind of work
does each of the following do?
Teacher Lawyer Minister Doctor Author Banker
CHAPTER VII

ANIMALS AND PLANTS
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There are many other living creatures in the world besides people.
Write a list of all the kinds of animals that you have ever seen.
[Illustration: AMERICAN BUFFALO.]
Some of these animals live near the homes of men. They are tame. Men
take care of them and see that they get food. Many of these animals are
very useful to us. Write a list of these tame animals. At the top of the
list write Domestic Animals. Of what use is each of the following
animals when alive? Which are useful after they are killed? Of what
use to man is each one?
Horse Pig Chicken Cow Dog Duck Sheep Cat Pigeon.
Read about how our meat is supplied to us.
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Write a