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304 Woodcraft Manual for Girls its smell, its pink or brown gills, its white flesh, brown spores and sohd stem. ' Mushroom Growing (See Article on "How to Raise Money") Books Recommended P kH5u'^t^°'^°.?^ °' New York, by Charles H. Peck. Published by New York State Museum, Albany, i8qs. V ^ °' C^'l^s H- Published by New York State Museum, Albany, 1900. ' v"^^!?!^?^" ^S"*"' W'"^ Marshall. Published, 1902, at xew York by Doubleday, Page & Co., $3.50. . , xn^^w J™^' ^Icllvaine & Macadam. $5. Pub- lished by the BoLbs-MemU Company of Indianapolis. 1902; add 40 cmto Mushrooms, by G. F. Atkinson. HoL & Co. 01^^ MusHEooM, by M. E. Hard. The Ohio Library Company, Columbus, White Man's Woodcraft or Meataring Weights and Distance Would you like to teU a dog's height by its track? Then take the length m inches of his forefoot track, multiply it by eight, and that will give you his height at the shoulder. A little dog has a 2i-inch foot and stands about eighteen inches- a sheepdog with a 3-inch track measures twenty-four inches, and a mastiff or any big dog with a 4-inch track gives thirty to tnirty-two inches. The dog's weight, too, can be judged by the track. Multiply his forefoot in inches by the length, and multiply that by five and you wiU have a pretty close estimate of h^ weight m pounds. This, of course, does not apply to freak dogs. The Height of Trees To get the height of a tree, cut a pole ten feet long. Choosing the smoothest ground A, prop the pole some distance from the tree. Lay down so that the eye B is level with the tree basp and in hne with the top of the pole and the tree. Mark the spot B with a peg and measure the distance from the pee to the foot of the pole, then from the peg to the foot of thVteee. Ihe height of the tree wUl be found by the formula: the distance between the peg and the pole is to the height of the pole as