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TABLE 4. Retail prices of standard varieties of seed, 1917 and 1918. 



In the case of seed corn in the spring of 1918, most of the 

 price increase should be charged up to a backward growing 

 season in 1917 and early, heavy frost that year. Climatic 

 conditions in 1917 and 1918 also were responsible in consider- 

 able measure, together with the small carry-over on July 1, 

 1917, and still smaller carry-over on July 1. 1918, for the 

 high prices for red-clover seed. The prices of such seeds as 

 timothy, redtop, meadow fescue, and Kentucky bluegrass, 

 a large percentage of the crop of which is normally exported 

 each year, remained nearer prewar levels than did the 

 clovers, seed grains, etc., largely because there appeared to be 

 very little demand in European countries for seeds of the 



