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seed containing no chafF whatever, and as the 

 price is based entirely on the weight of the 

 actual seed contained it is much better to buy 

 by the pound than by the quart. Ask the 

 seedsman for "recleaned fancy" Kentucky blue 

 grass, which may weigh even as high as thirty 

 pounds to the actually measured bushel. 

 In trade usage fourteen pounds of actual seed 

 is regarded as a standard bushel and is sold 

 as a bushel independently of its actual bulk. 

 Thus, of the poorer grades, you may have 

 two bushels of bulk and get one bushel of 

 seed. 



A mixture of high grade thoroughly re- 

 cleaned fancy seed would vary in price from 

 i^4.50 to ^5 per bushel according to the 

 quantities of the rarer or special grasses that 

 were included in the mixture, and cannot be 

 sold very much cheaper even in bulk. Cheaper 

 mixtures can be bought, and I have seen ex- 

 cellent results the first year from lawns which 

 have been seeded with mixtures that cost as 

 low as ;^3 per bushel. Indeed, further than 

 this, one gentleman once pointed out to me 

 with great pride a lawn of about five acres in 

 extent, on which he had used two mixtures, 

 one costing $5 a bushel, the other IS3 a bushel. 



