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bility it affords of testing the reader's ability to convert the authors 
thought into such form that it actually becomes his own. Inability 
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 mind 
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 in 
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 
comity 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 
Fanners' Bulletin 257. 
Farmers' Bulletin 406 
Farmers' Bulletin 44. 
Barnyard Manure 
Farmers' Bulletin 192. 
Plant production 
Testing Farm Seeds in the Home and in the Rural 
School. 
Farmers' Bulletin 428. 
Farmers' Bulletin 443. 
Farmers' Bulletin 414. 
Farmers' Bulletin 415. 
Farmers' Bulletin 313. 
Farmers' Bulletin 534. 
Sea Island Cotton 
Farmers' Bulletin 302. 
Flax Culture 
Farmers' Bulletin 274 
Farmers' Bulletin 382. 
Our Native Pasture Plants 
Yearbook Sep. 223. 
Alfalfa 
Farmers' Bulletin 339.. 
Farmers' Bulletin 318. 
Millets 
Farmers' Bulletin 101. 
Rape 
Farmers' Bulletin 164.. 
Farmers' Bulletin 372. 
Farmers' Bulletin 515. 
Truck crops. . 
Good Seed Potatoes and How to Produce Them 
Farmers' Bulletin 533. 
Farmers' Bulletin 35. 
The Sugar Beet 
Farmers' Bulletin 52. 
Sweet Potatoes 
Farmers' Bulletin 324. 
Miscellaneous field 
Farmers' Bulletin 174. 
crops. 
Farmers' Bulletin 304. 
Tobacco Curing 
Farmers' Bulletin 523. 
The Peanut. 
Farmers' Bulletin 431. 
Crop pests . 
Farmers' Bulletin 28. 
Farmers' Bulletin 127. 
Cotton Wilt .. 
Farmers' Bulletin 333. 
The Boll Weevil Problem 
Farmers' Bulletin 512. 
The Smuts of Wheat, Oats, Barley, and Corn 
Farmers' Bulletin 507. 
