16 



IMPORTED LOW-GRADE CLOVER AND ALFALFA SEED. 



Table 11.— Analyses of Jive samples of high-grade red clorrr seed offered fur sale during 



the year ended June 30, 1906. 



The accompanying diagram presents in graphic form a comparison 

 of the averages of the analyses of red clover seed imported, as shown 

 in Tables I and 11. 



ALFALFA. 



Table III gives the analyses of sixteen selected low-grade samples 

 of imported alfalfa seed, representing cargoes amomiting to 275,572 

 pounds. Since the total importations of alfalfa seed during the 

 same period were 5,688,689 pounds, the low-grade seed furnished 

 about one-twentieth of the total. The quality of this low-grade seed 

 is similar to that of ther red clover seed shown in Table I. The 

 germination is low and the seed in many samples is small or shriveled. 

 All but two of these lots contain dodder, and all contained on an aver- 

 age more than fifteen kinds of weed seeds. 



Table III .—Analyses of sixteen samples of low-grade alfalfa seed imported during the 



fiscal year ended June 30, 1906. 



a 75 per cf nt of the samples cont- in-^d dodder. 



6 Total quantity of low-grade alfalfa seed imported, 275,572 pounds. 



Ill— III 



