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bility it affords of testing the reader's ability to convert the author's 

 thought into such form that it actually becomes his own. Inabilil y 

 to tell in one's own words what has been read is good evidence that 

 the reading has not been done understandingly. The work of 

 selecting the essential thoughts from the text matter and arranging 

 them in a logical outline will help to organize the ideas in the mmd 

 of the reader, and to fix them more permanently in his memory, 

 than would be possible if the reading were done without any attempt 

 at picking out and writing down the important facts. Besides, this 

 exercise will act as a sort of brake to safeguard against too rapid and 

 cursory reading. 



Where there are several persons in the same locality who wish to 

 pursue the reading course it will be a good plan for them to unite m 

 a reading club, and meet occasionally to quiz one another. In this 

 way the benefits of an exchange of ideas and of the increased enthusi- 

 asm arising from association will be derived. It is suggested that 

 county superintendents might be able to work out a plan whereby a 

 few sets of these publications could be exchanged between groups of 

 teachers in the same county, and thus be used as the basis of sys- 

 tematic agricultural reading-club work. 



A list of publications of the United States Department of Agriculture suggested for an 



agricultural reading course. 



I. AGRONOMY. 



Topic. Title. 



Publication. 



Soils 



Soil Fertility 

































Farmers' Bulletin 278. 



Plant production 







Testing Farm Seeds in the Home and in the Rural 

 School. 



Farmers' Bulletin 428. 













Farmers' Bulletin 415. 







Farmers' Bulletin 313. 



















Farmers' Bulletin 417. 



















Farmers' Bulletin 302. 



















Yearbook Sep. 223. 

 Fanners' Bulletin 339. 





Alfalfa. . .- 













Fanners' Bulletin 318. 





Millets 



Farmers' Bulletin 101. 























Good Seed Potatoes and How to Produce Them 











The Sugar Beet 



Farmers' Bulletin 52. 







Fanners' Bulletin 324. 



Miscellaneous field 







crops. 





Fanners' Bulletin 304. 











The Peanut 



Farmers' Bulletin 431. 



Crop pests 





Farmers' Bulletin 28. 







Fanners' Bulletin 127. 





Cotton Wilt - .- 



Fanners' Bulletin 333. 





The Boll Weevil Problem 



Fanners' Bulletin 512. 







Farmers' Bulletin 507. 









