I6 MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. I906. 



Analysis of seeds. Station samples — Concluded: 





Description of Sample, Foreign Seeds, etc. 



eg 



505 



499 



502 



496 



506 



503 



501 



509 



842 



495 



510 



511 



512 



Timothy— Continuerl . 



From Harmon and Harris, Portland, April 10, 1905 



Number of foreign seeds in 1 pound. 



Timothy", 24,800; five-flnger, 19,200; dooryard plantain, 

 12,600. 



From Harmon and Harris, Portland, April 10, 1905 



Number of foreign seeds in 1 pound. 



Timothy, 1,600; catcbfly, 1,000; dooryard plantain, 400. 



From Geo. B. Haskell Co., Lewiston, April 18, 1905 



Number of foreign seeds in 1 pound. 



Timothy, 2,400; dooryard plantain, 400; catcbfly, 200. 



From Geo. B. Haskell Co., Lewiston, April 18, 1905 



Number of foreign seeds in 1 pound 



Timothy, 99,600; flve-flnger, 2,400; dooryard plantain 

 2,800; wild peppergrass, 400. 



From Oscar Holway Co., Auburn, April 20, 1905 



Number of foreign seeds in 1 piound. 



Timothy, 128,000; flve-flnger, 20,000; dooryard plantain 

 2,000; lady's thumb, 1,400. 



From Oscar Holway Co., Auburn, April 20, 1905 



Number of foreign seeds in 1 pound. 

 Timothy, 114,000; dooryard plantain, 2,000. 



From Oscar Holway Co., Auburn, April 20, 1905 



Number of foreign seeds in 1 pound. 



Timothy, 800; flve-flnger, 200; dooryard plantain, 1,000 

 ragweed, 400; blue vervain, 200. 



From Kendall and Whitney, Portland, April 7, 1905 



Number of foreign seeds in 1 pound. 



Timothy, 179,400; flve-flnger, 9,400; dooryard plantain 

 2,000. 



From Kendall and Whitney, Portland, April 7, 1905 . 

 Number of foreign seeds in 1 pound. 

 Timothy, 168,400; flve-flnger, 5,200; dooryard plantain 

 1,600; sheep sorrel, 600. 



From Shaw, Hammond & Carney, Portland, Apr. 13, 1905 



Number ofjoreign seecls in 1 pound. 



Timothy, 61,200; five-flnger, 1,400; dooryard plantain, 400 



From Shaw, Hammond & Carney, Portland, April, 13,1905 

 Number of foreign seeds in 1 pound. 



Alsike, 200; timothy, 6,400; flve-flnger, 8,800; wild 

 peppergrass, 200; dooryard plantain, 200. 



Orchard Grass. {Dactytig glomerata.) 

 From R. B. Dunning and Co., Bangor, March 31, 1905... 

 Number of foreign seeds in 1 pound. 

 Red clover, 200; red top, 1,000; sorrel, 600; ribgrass, 200. 



Kentucky Blue Grass. (Poapratensis.) 

 From R. B. Dunning and Co., Bangor, March 31, 1905... 

 Number of foreign seeds in 1 pound. 



Red clover, 200; alsike, 200; orchard grass, 200; timothy 

 200; sheep sorrel, 200; lady's thumb, 200. 



Lawn Seed. 



Prom Geo. B. Haskell Co., Lewiston, May 5, 1905 



Number of foreign seeds in 1 pound. 



Sheep sorrel, 4,000; dooryard plantain, 1,000. 



Per ct. 

 85.2 



Per ct. 



0.6 



99.2 



0.5 



99.4 



0.4 



99.3 



0.1 



92.1 



0.3 



94.2 



0.3 



99.5 



0.2 



93.3 



0.1 



90.0 



1.0 



95.2 



1.1 



98.3 



1.0 



97.8 



1.9 



98.8 



0.8 



97.7 



1.5 



Per ct. 

 14.2 



0.3 



0.2 



3.7 



0.7 



