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Reporting Results of Tests: 



R('])orts upon the purity of samples can usually be furnished 

 within two or three days after they are received. Final reports 

 upon f>(M-niination tests or upon different examinations as to 

 purity will vary as to time, according to the number of samples 

 on "hand, amount of impurities, variety of seeds, etc. The fol- 

 lowing list shows the usual time required for final germination 

 reports upon the more common seeds: 



Alfalfa, alsike and other clovers, beans, peas, corn, cucumbers, 

 cabbage, millet, rape, turnips, oats, and other cereals, five to 

 seven days. 



Beets, buckwheat, timothy, tomatoes, melons, and vetch, six 

 to nine days. 



Brome grass, fescues, salsify and spinach, eight to twelve 

 days. 



Carrots, celery, parsnips, orchard grass, redtop and tobacco, 



ten to fifteen days. 



Blue grass, fifteen to thirty days. 



It is hoped that all will recognize that there are many others 

 sending in seeds for examination who wish " immediate replies." 

 All samples will be examined in the order of their receipt. Re- 

 ports by telephone or telegraph will be given at the expense of 

 the sender of the sample. 



Kinds of Impurities: 



In making reports of tests, all seeds other than those of the 

 variety under examination found in a sample will be considered 

 as foreign seeds and therefore as impurities. Dirt, stems, hulls, 

 sand, etc., will also constitute an impurity under the term " inert 

 matter." While other kinds of grass seed found in a given 

 sample constitute an impurity, their presence there may not be 

 harmful or even objectionalile. In view of this fact, the reports 

 of inspection will have the total percentage of impurity divided 

 into percentage of inert matter, percentage of other grass seeds 

 and percentage of weed seeds. For example, if a sample of 

 timothy is found to be 95 per cent, pure and the five per cent, 

 of impurity to ])e alsike clover and redtop, both the seller and 

 the buyer ought to know it. 



