SEED TESTS 



Made December 1, 1912, to September 1, 1913. 



The provisions of the Pure Seed Law enacted by the General 

 Court in 1909 require the publication annually of a bulletin by 

 the New Hampshire Experiment Station of the results of all 

 seed tests made officially during the previous year. The ad- 

 ministration of said law was placed in the hands of the secre- 

 tary of the State Board of Agriculture, who appointed the 

 writer, agronomist of the experiment station, as his regular 

 agent for making all tests and analyses in this state. 



During the year, or rather the nine months' period from De- 

 cember 1 to September 1, only thirty-four samples were vol- 

 untarily sent in for analysis as against fifty-five for 

 1912, seventy-eight for 1911 and two hundred and thirty- 

 eight for 1910. In addition to these thirty-four samples 

 the fertilizer collector secured and sent in seventy-three 

 samples, making a total of one hundred and seven analyzed 

 during the nine months. These seventy-three samples were 

 taken from seeds being offered for sale and were collected 

 from thirty-one dealers in twenty-five different towns repre- 

 senting each of the ten counties of the state. These samples 

 included two of alfalfa, three of alsike clover, twentj^-two of 

 seed corn, two of Hungarian, nine of millet, nine of seed oats, 

 seven of red clover, three of redtop and sixteen of timothy. 

 A summary table showing the results of the examination of 

 these seventy-three samples will be found on pages 4 and 5. 



The writers wish to acknowledge their appreciation of the 

 careful and efficient work of Mr. C. E. Roberts, who assisted 

 in making the tests and examinations of the samples herewith 

 reported. 



