126 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



DIRECTIONS FOR USING CULTURE. 



This culture is sent to you with the understanding that you will use 

 it according to directions and report to us your success or failure. The 

 price of the culture is 25 cents. 



1. Cover the seed with water and let it soak for an hour. 



2. Mix a pound of granulated sugar with each bushel of wet seed. 

 (This step is advised but it can be omitted.) 



3. Spread the seed in a clean place until dry enough to plant. 



4. Pour a little cool water into the bottle of culture, break up the 

 culture with a clean stick and mix it with the seed. 



5. If the seed is still too wet and sticky to plant, it may be spread 

 out again in the shade. It should be neither wet nor dry, but as moist 

 as it can be and yet seed evenly. Plant the seed just as you would un- 

 treated seed. 



6. Do not open the bottle until you are ready to treat the seed, and 

 treat only as much seed as you can sow in a day. 



7. A small strip should be planted with uninoculated seed for com- 

 parison and this should he seeded first. 



8. Put a sample of uninoculated seed in one of the small envelopes 

 and a sample of inoculated seed in the other and return to us in the 

 addressed envelope. Address, 



BACTBRIOfcOGICAL LABORATORY, 



East Lansing, Mich. 



REJPORT ON SEED INOCULATION. 



Name 



Address 



Kind of seed 



Pounds of seed planted without culture .- 



Seed planted with culture 



Nodules on untreated seedlings ■ 



Vigor of growth with untreated 



Vigor of growth with treated 



Character of soil 



Previous crops 



Was your crop benefitted by the treatment ? 



Do you want to try it again next year? 



Further observations 



Did you find the treatment eas}' of application? 



Address, 



Bacteriological Laboratory. 



East Lansing, Mich. 



With the return of reports, we are hoping that we shall be in posi- 

 tion to judge of the need of legume inoculation here in Michigan. 

 Reports from Canada, New York, and Virginia are so flattering that 

 we feel much may be gained by the treatment: however, we are pre- 

 pared to be disappointed. The Circular (No. 5) prepai-ed by Wm. S. 

 Sayer and published elsewhere in this report gives concisely our atti- 



