BULLETIN 392, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
clean. Spread out not over three seeds deep to dry, stirring repeat- 
edly until dry. 
Study questions: For what purposes are tomatoes grown by the 
pupils and by the community? For local market? For distant 
market ? For canning ? What receptacles are used in picking ? 
What care is exercised in preparing tomatoes for the market ? What 
kinds of packages are used for shipping ? Do club members and 
people of the community select their* own seed or buy seed in the 
market ? Describe the local method of selecting and saving tomato 
seed. Record all answers in a notebook. 
References. — Farmers' Buls. 220, pp. 13, 14; and 642, pp. 10, 11. 
Practical exercises. — (1) The club members and pupils with home 
work with tomatoes should be busy picking, marketing, and canning 
tomatoes. Market and can the select fruits and convert the rough, 
•cracked, and uneven fruits into other products. (2) Select and store 
choice tomato seed from thrifty, productive, healthy plants. 
Correlations. — Language: Written work is provided in connection 
with the study questions. 
Drawing: Make sketches of choice tomato plants, of select fruits, 
and of shipping packages. 
Geography: Locate on the map canneries in the community, 
county, or section. In what distant markets are tomatoes and canned 
products of club members sold? Over what railroads are they 
shipped ? Locate these on the map. 
Arithmetic: Develop problems on the cost, value, and profit or 
loss of the experiences of club members. Base the exercises on the 
yearly reports. 
LESSON FOUR. 
TOPIC: JUDGING. 
MONTH: SEPTEMBER. 
Lesson outline. — The plant: The "form" of the plant has reference 
to the habit of growth. Standard varieties differ from dwarf varie- 
ties in this respect. In judging the form of a given plant it should be 
compared with an ideal plant in habit of growth. " Vigor" is the 
ability of a plant to thrive under suitable conditions. Thriftiness is 
indicated by the appearance of the plant and the fruit it bears. The 
"foliage" should be heavy to be able to resist the hot sun of mid- 
summer days, and diseases. " Productiveness" needs no explana- 
tion. Great stress should be laid on this quality. Some sorts of 
tomatoes are more subject to " disease" than others. Hence a place 
is given in the judging record to this point. Both the plant and its 
fruit should be examined carefully in this connection. 
The fruit: The " shape" of the fruit should be ideal for the variety. 
"Smoothness" is an important quality. The condition (fig. 2) of the 
