28 BULLETIN 132, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Have the pupils bring from home the farm papers that have been 
read there. 
Group your publications after some convenient plan and form the 
habit of using them in connection with your work. 
Almost unlimited reference material may be had free. Use a few 
postal cards and command this material. Create an agricultural 
atmosphere in the school, thereby making it a real center of activity 
in the community. 
Agricultural colleges in the Southern States: 
Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Ala. 
College of Agriculture of the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Ark. 
College of Agriculture of the University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla. 
Georgia State College of Agriculture, Athens, Ga. 
State University and College of Agriculture, Lexington, Ky. 
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, Baton 
Rouge, La. 
Maryland Agricultural College, College Park, Md. 
Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College, Agricultural College, Miss. 
The North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, West Raleigh, 
N. C. 
Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College, Stillwater, Okla. 
The Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina, Clemson College, S. C. 
College of Agriculture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn. 
Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, College Station, Tex. 
Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Ya. 
West Virginia University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, Morgan- 
town, W. Va. 
SEED SELECTING. 
As soon as possible after the opening of school in the fall trips to 
to club patches and near-by fields should be made and typical plants, 
located, from which seeds are to be selected later. Plants should be 
selected that have made the best showing as to symmetrical growth 
and number and quality of seed under average conditions. For 
instance, do not be misled by an attractive, symmetrical, highly 
productive specimen that happens to have unusual distance or stands 
on an unusually fertile spot. Select the plant that has outstripped 
its neighbors in the before-mentioned characteristics under average 
conditions. 
Let these individuals be marked in some way so that they may 
be located readily when seeds have matured. 
Later in the season, after the seeds have matured and in advance 
of general harvesting, go back to the fields or plats and select the 
choice specimens of seed from stalks previously marked. 
Such seed should be stored in a dry, cool place to await germi- 
nating and vitality tests. 1 
1 See TJ. S. Dept. Agr., Bu. Plant Indus. Doc. 485, The Selection of Cotton and Corn Seed for Southern 
Farms. 
