with either one of the following solutions: 
CLOROX (you get it at the grocery or drug store) 
weakened to 1 part of Clorox to 20 parts of 
water 
or a 
HYPOCHORITE SOLUTION made by adding a measured 
2/3 cup of water to a heaping tablespoon of 
chorinated lime as sold in grocery and drug 
stores. Stir vigorously to dissolve as much as 
possible, let settle and use the clear solution. 
Having placed the seed you are going to plant and the 
sterilizing solution in the test tube, place thumb over 
its mouth and shake vigorously every few minutes for 
not less than 15 minutes. This is to. make sure that the 
solution contacts every seed. The seed are so small that 
they have a tendency to bunch together -- the agitation is 
necessary to separate them. A period slightly longer than 
15 minutes in the sterile solution will not harm them. 
At the end of the sterilizing period, shake the tube vigor- 
ously and before the seed has a chance to bunch up again, 
dump the contents of the tube into a funnel lined with 
filter paper. (Filter paper can be bought from your drug 
store.) As the solution seeps through the filter paper, 
some of the seed will adhere to the side of the cone. It 
can be washed down to the point of the cone with an occas- 
ional drop of the sterilizing fluid dropped from a medicine 
dropper which has been sterilized. 
When all of the stezlizing solution has drained through 
the filter paper, remove the filter paper with seed from 
the funnel, and place flat before you on a clean, sterile 
surface. With a fine wire, which has a loop about 1/16 
inch in diameter at the end of it, and which you have 
fastened to a stiff handle about 8 or 9 inches long, such 
as a glass rod or a mettle rod, scoop up as much seed as 
you can with the loop.(Before doing this, be sure to pass 
the wire and loop through a match, candle or gas flame.) 
Having gotten a porsipn of seed in the loop, remove cotton 
stopper from a flask (or the lid from a jar), tilt contain- 
er as much as possible and wash seed off in the water 
