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Report of the Department oi Botany of the 



Repobt of -Analyses • of -Samples of Seeds (concluded). 



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 Z 



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 ft 



a 



03 



105 

 106 

 155 

 160 

 163 

 164 

 165 



379 

 380 



263 

 370 

 280 

 279 

 184 



Kind of seed, brand or trade name, name of dealer, 

 and place of collection. 



Composition. 



Foreign 

 seed. 



Inert 

 matter. 



Pure 

 seed. 



Timothy (concluded): 

 Timothy 



A. G. Johnson, Jamestown. 

 Timothy 



Henry & Missert, Buffalo. 

 Timothy 



LeRoy Power & Milling Co., LeRoy. 

 Timothy 



Charles Olmsted, Livonia. 

 Timothy 



Walter H. Clark, Avon. 

 Timothy 



Frank Minahan, Honeoye. 

 Timothy 



Alexander Davidson, Canandaigua. 



Vetch: 

 Summer 



W. R. Perkins & Co., Newburgh. 

 Winter 



W. R. Perkins & Co., Newburgh. 



White Clover: 

 Cascade 



Elmore Milling Co., Oneonta. 

 Cherry 



Chas. W. Witbeck, Schenectady. 

 White Clover 



I. S. Matthews Sons, Binghamton. 

 White Clover 



I. S. Matthews Sons, Binghamton. 

 White Clover 



James Vick's Sons, Rochester. 



Per ct. 



.05 



.75 



1.16 



17.10 



6.93 



3.69 



.24 



.13 

 25.66 



4.65 

 16.32 



.28 

 .56 

 .49 



Per ct. 

 .10 

 .20 



.30 



1. 



1.50 

 .70 

 .10 



1. 

 1.60 



2.50 

 10. 



.60 

 1.20 



.10 



Per ct. 

 99.85 



99.05 

 98.54 

 81.90 

 91.57 

 95.61 

 99.66 



98.87 

 72.74 



92.85 

 73.68 

 99.12 

 98.24 

 99.41 



RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN " WEIGHT " AND " COUNT ' : METHODS 

 FOR DETERMINATION OF PERCENTAGE OF PURITY OF SEED. 



In order to eliminate the time-consuming task of finding the 

 number of crop seeds in a given weight of the sample, it seemed 

 necessary to establish some " standards " as to the number of seeds 

 per unit weight for the various kinds of crop seed. In view of 



