Anna Botsford Comstock

Jun 7, 2024 | smallfarmersjournal.com | Anna Botsford Comstock |Lynn Miller

Sunfish and IThis colorful little disc-shaped fish has many popular names. It is called pumpkin seed, tobacco box and sunfish because of its shape, and it also called bream and pond fish. (Out west the Bluegill, a variety of sunfish or bream, is extremely popular.) The sunfish lives in the eddies of clear brooks and ponds. It is a near relative to the rock bass and also of the black bass and, relative to it size, ounce for ounce, it can match the fight of bass.

May 30, 2024 | smallfarmersjournal.com | Anna Botsford Comstock

from Handbook of Nature-Study for Teachers and Parentsby Anna Botsford Comstock, self-published, copyright 1929He who knows the ways of the woodchuck can readily guess where it is likely to be found; it loves meadows and pastures where grass or clover lushly grows. It is also fond of garden truck and has a special delectation for melons. The burrow is likely to be situated near a fence or stone heap, which gives easy access to its chosen food.