3. Shelter plants.
4. Ornamental plants.
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CHAPTER VIII
TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATION
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Think of the foods that you had on your dinner table yesterday. Where did each come from? How did it get here? Was there anything which came from our own neighborhood, and which did not have to take a long journey either to the factory where it was manufactured or to the store where it was sold?
Examine the clothing you are wearing. Of what material is each article made? Where did the materials come from? Where were they manufactured? Which had to come a long journey before it reached your home?
Look around the school-room and name the materials which had to travel a long distance before we could have them for our use.
Imagine trying to get our food, our clothing and our shelter materials right near our school. How much could we be sure of having?
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Perhaps you have seen products being brought into the city. You may have seen the milk trains unloading their many shining cans. Surely you [p51] have seen the freight cars with their signs painted on the outside telling that they are refrigerator cars, or coal cars, or other kinds of cars. What do they carry?