RELATIVE STANDING OF NORTH CAROLINA SEED 



LABORATORY 



Nothing sliow.s more conclusivolv tlie ctiicieiicv of a st'cd laboratory 

 than the gormiuation test. At the beginning of this year the Association 

 of American Seed Analysts, of wbidi organization the North Carolina 

 Seed Laboratory is a member, submitted through its secretary, ^Ir. 

 Oswald, twenty-one ditferent samples of the most diificultly germinating 

 seeds to the fifty-one different seed laboratories throughout the United 

 States and Canada fni- the jnirpose of testing the efficiency of these 

 different laboratories. 



This test of efficiency meant a great deal to the different laboratories 

 and to the people served by them. 



The following table shows the result of thi.s crucial test, and North 

 Carolinians will be delighted to note that their laboratory stands among 

 the first on the continent in point of efficiency of service. 



Number 12 in the table is the number assigned to North Carolina, 

 and one has only to compare this number with the other numbers to 

 ascertain the standing of our laboratory as compared with the other 

 seed laboratories of North America. 



The figures in the column marked "laboratory number" designate 

 the different sjed laboratories in North America. The numbers in the 

 columns under the names of the different seeds, as 'S'ed clover," etc., 

 represent the ])ercentage of gcrmiiuition secured by the diiferent labora- 

 tories in the United States and Canada, testing portions of the same 

 sample. 



