140 THE SEED-GROWER. 
then laid between two dinner plates and kept in a warm 
room, giving proper attention to keeping the layers 
moistened as necessary. 
To pick out seeds of grasses to be tested, use a pane 
of glass, over the surface of which lay spread thinly the 
seeds, which have previously been made thoroughly 
wet. The glass is then held up to the light, and the 
seeds may easily be picked out from the chaff with a 
forceps and counted. 
BEST METHOD FOR KEEPING SEEDS IN STORE. 
Seeds are best kept inadry, airyroom. They should 
not be placed in air-tight vessels. Cloth sacks are 
better for keeping seeds in than anything else. 
The best way, and it should be done with all fine seeds 
especially, is to fill the sacks about half full (in order 
to handle them more readily) and suspend from racks 
specially made, or from hooks attached to the ceiling 
rafters. The bags should not lay against a wall. Hold- 
ing suspended in the way mentioned, will permit free 
circulation of air about the bags, and render safe from 
mice. 
Unceasing watchfulness is necessary in the care of 
seeds to preserve from damage by insects. 
Seeds kept in drawers and bins should be overhauled, 
particularly during the warm season, and if there are 
any indications of insect life, such as lumpiness or 
forming in small balls, etc., the seeds should be taken 
out and given a cleaning in a sieve or in the fan-mill. 
The drawer or bin should also be carefully cleaned be- 
fore the seeds are put back. 
A few tar-balls put into each sack, drawer or bin will 
serve measurably to drive away insects, though they are 
not a sure preventive. See directions for killing weevil 
and insects in seeds in article on pea-weevil on page 73. 
