30 THE SCIENCE AND PRACTICE 



Confining our present remarks to turnip seeds, 

 we assert that if farmers will try the germinating 

 powers from the bulk of the seed which may be sent 

 to them, they will find pretty nearly one-third to be 

 rubbish. It is of no use to try from samples, except 

 in comparison with bulk ; and if all the farmers of 

 Great Britain did this, and would communicate the 

 results, what an extraordinary tale would be unfolded, 

 more especially if the evidence be completed by notes 

 on the purity or otherwise of the crop grown from 

 such seeds ! 



