SEED TESTING 4! 



70. The value of "trial grounds" to seedsmen and to the 

 public cannot be overestimated. The firm's stocks and 

 those of competitors are grown side by side, and as the 

 season advances, critical observations are made, with the 

 result that inferior stock is discovered and disposed of in 

 ways that will do no harm. 



71. The importance of seed analysis is threefold: a, 

 seeds are the most variable materials farmers have to 

 buy ; b, weight for weight they are the most costly ; c, 

 the success or failure of the immediate crops and often of 

 several generations of crops depends largely or perhaps 

 even wholly upon the character of the seed. Hence seed 

 testing is almost essential to the modern farmer who 

 must leave no point to chance. 



Borlase furnishes an example in the following table 

 and comment : 



VALUE OF SEED ANALYSIS ILLUSTRATED 



"Price approximate, hence "nurrfber good seed for a cent" also approximate. 



FIG. 32 EFFECTIVE MEANS OF HASTENING GERMINATION 

 Seedlings under inverted flower pot. 2. Seedlings under pane of glass. 



