SEEDS AND SEEDING 



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TABLE SHOWING PURITY AND GERMINATION OF FORAGE SEEDS 

 OF HIGH QUALITY 



63. Adulteration and misbranding. Seeds are not 

 infrequently adulterated by the admixture of similar- 

 looking cheaper seeds. Whenever such inferior seeds are 

 found present in considerable quantities, it may reasonably 

 be considered to be due to adulteration. Sometimes one 

 kind of seed is sold for another which it closely re- 

 sembles, as trefoil for alfalfa, or Canada blue-grass for 

 Kentucky blue-grass. Such are usually willful cases of 

 misbranding. 



Adulteration and misbranding of seeds was formerly 

 much more common, but the practice is by no means 



