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TABLE V— SHOWING NUMBER AND AVERAGE PER CENT OF GERMINATION OF VEGE- 

 TABLE SEED SAMPLES TESTED, ACCORDING TO WHOLESALE DEALERS. 



Wholesale Dealer. 



Number of 

 Samples 

 Tested. 



Average 

 Per Cent 

 of Germi- 

 nation. 



W. W. Barnard Co., Chicago, 111 



J. Bolgiano & Son, Baltimore, Md 



Robert Buist Co., Philadelphia, Pa 



Crosman Bros. Co., Rochester, N. Y._ 



Diggs & Beadles, Richmond, Va 



D. M. Ferry & Co., Detroit, Mich 



Lake Shore Seed Co., Dunkirk, N. Y.. 



D. Landreth Seed Co., Bristol, Pa 



Leonard Seed Co., Chicago, 111 



L. L. May & Co., St. Paul, Minn 



J. B. Rice Seed Co., Cambridge, N. Y 

 T. W. Wood & Sons, Richmond, Va.... 



3 

 3 



14 



27 



1 



64 



30 



18 



2 



7 



10 



14 



78.00 

 81.67 

 66.04 

 61.37 

 87.50 

 S4.24 

 74.38 

 82.33 

 92.75 

 67.93 

 54.70 

 76.32 





CONCLUSION. 



It is safe to assume that the seed dealers of the State desire to sell 

 only pure and unadulterated seed; it is also safe to assume that the 

 farmers of the State are demanding only such seed for planting. But, 

 in order to hring about the desired conditions, there must be a mutual 

 demand on the part of the planter and the seller of seed. 



It is clear, of course, that every seedsman must get his seeds from 

 some man's, farm, and can sell to one planter only such seed as he gets 

 from another planter. It will be seen, therefore, that all of the sins of 

 the seed trade should not be laid at the door of the seedsman, notwith- 

 standing the many crimes that cannot be traced beyond this point. 



If John Smith, of Piedmont, ]ST. C, chooses to cut and thresh a field 

 of red clover infested with dodder, and sell the seed to seedsmen of his 

 section, what can the seedsmen do but sell "William Jones dodder 

 infested clover seed? The crime was committed, not by the seedsman, 

 but by John Smith when the seed left his farm, and the seedsman be- 

 came an accomplice when he received the seed and passed them on to 

 William Jones to be spread over his farm. 



It is apparent, therefore, that in order to correct the evils of the 

 seed trade, the farmer himself must be reckoned with; and the seed 

 dealer should receive no seed from him without a guarantee of its 

 purity and freedom from pernicious weeds, unless he intends to reclean, 

 test, and guarantee them before exposing them for sale. 



