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Still more instructive is the 19 % real value of the very impure, 

 so called cheap seed from America, with a cost price of only 

 30.30 (30/4); for the price of 1 kg of real value was no less than 

 159.47 (159/6), against which my seed with a germinating capacity 

 of 79 %, a real value of 75.2 and a sale price of 37.80, cost only 

 50.26 (50/3) per kg of real value. 



In the following year the experiment was repeated, and for 

 this four samples were taken: my own seed as well as samples 

 from two Thuringian firms and one New York one, with the 

 following result: 



I Germinating capacity 80.5, Real value 78.57 % 



II 77.5, 73.94 



III 69 67.76 



IV 42.5, 36.98 



Now as the sale price of the four lots was 34, 20, 30, 34 and 

 31.50 (31/6) respectively, the following values are found: 



I kg germin. capac. 42.48, kg real val. 43.52 



II 38.70, 40.57 



III 49.27, 50.17 



IV 74.11, 85.18 



The aim of the future must therefore be to sell seed according 

 to the price per kilog. of real value, and not per kilog. of mate- 

 rial. But to carry this through would entail great difficulties. The 

 collectors in America and Japan would not like the price of the 

 seed to be determined here in Europe, two or three months after 

 its dispatch, and the seed merchants in Europe would be unable 

 to issue complete price lists; for the price would be known for 

 the first time, three or four weeks after the many different con- 

 signments had been received. In the case of a few of the more 

 important seeds of commerce, such as for example spruce, larch, 

 pine and silver fir seed, which are collected here in Europe and 

 often supplied in large quantities by the kilns, things must be wor- 

 ked so as to avoid discrepancies between the preliminary testing 

 of the seed establishment and the control testing by the purcha- 

 sers as soon as the technique of the seed testing establishments 

 is sufficiently certain; this might be brought about in the not far 

 distant future. 



