16 KENTUCKY BLUEGRASS SEED. 



Table No. I.— Seed stripped June 20; put in rick on ground June 20, 6 p. m. 



Sample. 



When taken. 



Temperature, p f , . ,' 

 degrees F. Fart ot n< k \ 



Percentage of 

 germination. 







140 Inside 



..... Top 



148 Inside 



130 do 



124 .....do 







b 



• June 21 , 10 a. m . . .......:... 



79 ■ 

 3 



d 













0.5 









Table No. 1 shows the result of tests of samples taken from seed 

 which was stripped on June 20 and put in a rick on the ground that 

 afternoon about 6 o'clock. The next morning at 10 o'clock, after the 

 seed had been in the rick for only sixteen hours, it had reached a 

 temperature of over 110° F., and the sample taken at that time from 

 the inside of the pile failed to germinate, while another sample taken 

 at the same time from the outside of the rick gave a germination of 

 79 per cent. As the seed was practically killed at the end of the first 

 sixteen hours, the samples taken later failed to germinate at all, or 

 gave such a low percentage that they showed the seed to be of no value. 



Table No. 2. — Seed stripped June 19; put in rick on ground June 19, 5 p. m. 



Sample. 



When taken. 



Temperature, p t . . . 

 degrees F. ^art oi rick. 



Percentage of 

 germination. 







130 



Inside 



Top 





b 





92.5 







131 



140 



145 



Inside 



do 



do 



Top 



1 



d 





.5 





June 22, 5.30 a. m 







f 



June T> 5 30 a m 





« 





140 



Inside 



1 







Table No. 2 shows the result with samples taken from seed stripped 

 on June 19 and put in a rick on the ground that afternoon. The next 

 morning, after about seventeen hours, the temperature was 130° F., 

 and a sample taken from the inside of the rick germinated 75.5 per 

 cent, while that taken from the top of the rick at the same time germi- 

 nated 92.5 per cent. The temperature in this case did not run up as 

 fast as in the case of the rick shown in Table No. 1, but the sample 

 taken after twenty-five hours germinated only 1 per cent. After 

 sixty hours the sample taken from the top of the rick germinated 

 only 77 per cent, having fallen off about 15 per cent in two days from 

 the effect of the heating, although on the outside of the rick. 



