SEED INSPECTION 81 



All seeds were sown on June 22. The first killing frost occurred on September 29. 

 Total rainfall for the months of June, July, August, and September in 1942 was 

 15.45 inches, as compared with 14.84 inches in 1941, 10.24 inches in 1940, 12.73 

 inches in 1939, and 32.49 inches in 1938.1 



Results of the tests on germination are summarized as follows: 



1 Data on precipitation and frost were taken from the monthly bulletins, "Meteorological Ob- 

 servations" of the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station. 



