SEED INSPECTION. 



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Analysis of seeds. 1906. 



Source of Sample, and Character, Kind a,o 

 and Number of Foreign Seeds in one S g 

 -Pound. t « 3 



£■0 



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 (- 2 



GARDEN FEA — Continued. Per ct. Per ct. Per ct. 



«69 Ben D. Field, Belfast, April 12, 1906 100 .0 .0 



598 W. A. Hill, Sangerville, April 7, 1906 100 .0 .0 



597 W. A. Hill, Sangerville, April 7, 1906 100 .0 .0 



CANADA FIELD PEA. 



€75 A. A. Howes & Co., Belfast, April 12, 1906. .100 .0 .0 



610 A. W. Gilman, Foxcroft, April 7, 1906 99.2 .0 .8 



Harmless, — Oats, 100. 



t No number is given if there were less than 100 seeds in one pound. 



A list of weed seeds found in seeds examined in 1906. 



Common name. 



American pennyroyal. 



American wild mint. 



Arrow-leaved tear-thumb. 



Bee plant. 



Bitter dock. 



Black medick. 



Black mustard. 



Black nightshade. 



Bladder ketmia. 



Blackberry or raspberry. 



Blue vervain. 



Blueweed. 



Borage family. 



Bracted plantain. 



Bull thistle. 



Canadian bluegrass. 



Canadian thistle. 



Careless weed. 



Catnip. 



Charlock. 



Chicory. 



Common chickweed. 



Common purslane. 



Corn cockle. 



Corn gromwell. 



Corn mayweed. 



Corn spurrey. 



Crabgrass. 



Crane's-bill. 



Dandelion. 



Dodder. 



English ryegrass. 



* Ulrgot (spore clusters). 



Evening primrose. 



Scientific name. 



Heaeoma pulegioides, (L) Pers. 



Mentha canadensis, L. 



Polygonum sagittatum, L. 



Cleome integrifolia, Torr & Gray. 



Kumex obtusifolius, L. 



Medicago lupulina, L. 



Brassica nigra, Koch. 



Solanum nigrum, L. 



Hibiscus trionum, L. 



Kubus sr>. 



Verbena hastata, L. 



Echium vulgare, L. 



Amsinckia intermedia, F. & M. 



Plantago aristata, Michx. 



Carduus lanceolatus, L. 



Poa compressa, L. 



Carduus arvensis, (L) Robs. 



Amaranthus hybridus, L. 



Nepeta cataria, L. 



Brassica sinapistrum, Boiss. 



Cichorium intybus, L. 



Alsine media, L. 



Portulaca oleracea, L. 



Agrostemma githago, L. 



Eithospermum arvense, L. 



Matricaria inodora, L. 



Spergula arvensis, L. 



Panicum sanguinale, L. 



Geranium maculatum. 



Taraxacum taraxacum (L) Karst. 



Cuscuta epithymum, Bab. 



Eolium perenne, L. 



Oenothera biennis, L. 



» Ergot is a disease affecting grain and grasses. The disease is very 

 fatal to the plants attacked and ergotised grain is dangerous and some- 

 times fatal to man and animals. 



