ELEVENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART XI 



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APPRECIATION OF GOOD SEED NECESSARY. 



These and other conditions of the seed trade operating against the 

 use of the hest seed have long prevailed in this country. They are 

 likely to continue, largely irrespective of laws to the contrary, until 

 consumers generally come to appreciate and accept only good seed. 

 Consumers will need to know good seed from poor and to understand 

 that the legitimate price of good seed is actually lower than the corres- 

 ponding price of poor seed which costs relatively more to market, authough 

 the original cost to the dealer may be lower than that of high-grade seed. 



Fig-. 10. — Mixture of seeds of orchard grass (a), meadow fescue (b), and 

 English rye-grass (c). The orchard grass seeds are distinguished from 

 the others by their slender, curved form. The meadow fescue and rye- 

 grass seeds are distinguished by the differnce in the section of the seed- 

 cluster axis (rachilla segment) which each bears. (Enlarged.) 



