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1. Nothing. 



2. Immerse in water at 70" F. for four hours. 



3. Immerse in water at 70' F. for ten minutes. 

 4- Immerse in water at 133" F. for ten minutes. 



5. Immerse in water at 70° F. for forty hours, and then at 70° F. for five minutes 



6. Immerse in one-fourth per cent solution of formalin for thirty minutes. 



7. Immerse in one-half per cent solution of formalin for thirty minutes. 



8. Sprinkle with No, 6 solution without immersing. 



9. Immsrse in two per cent solution of copper sulphate for ten minutes. 

 10. Nolhing. 



After treatment all lots are to be dried as much as they would need to be in ordei 

 to be sown in a grain drilL Place in germinator at ■;o° F, and determine the num- 

 ber of seeds which have germinated at the end of twenty-four hours for five days. 

 (475) Lots of seed may also be grown as in (433). 



435. Collateral Reading. 

 The Leading Cereal Crops in Canada. By Wm. Saunders. Experimental Farms 



Rpt 1903, pp. 6-33. 

 Farm Manure. Ey A. Hebart. £. S. R. V. pp. 13Q-15S. 

 Origin of Cultivated Plants. By A. De Candoile. Kew York: D. Appleton & Co. 



^igo2), pp. 373-37^' 



