Issued February 15, 1908. 
United States Department of Agriculture. 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY—Circular No. 26. 
THE ADULTERATION AND MISBRANDING OF ALFALFA, RED CLOVER, 
AND GRASS SEEDS. 
During the calendar year 1907 seed of agricultural plants was 
obtained in the open market in accordance with the following para- 
graph in the act of Congress making appropriations for the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture: 
The Secretary oi Agriculture is hereby directed to obtain in the open market samples 
of seeds of grass, clover, or alfalfa, test the same, and if any such seeds are found to be 
adulterated or misbranded, or any seeds of Canada bluegrass (Poa compressa) are 
obtained under any other name than Canada bluegrass or Poa compressa, to publish 
the results of the tests, together with the names of the persons by whom the seeds 
were offered for sale. 
Jn carrying out the provisions of this act, seed of red clover, alfalfa, 
meadow fescue, Bromus inermis, and Kentucky bluegrass was secured 
and analyzed, and publication is here made of the analyses of those 
samples found to be adulterated or misbranded, together with the 
names of the seedsmen by whom they were offered for sale. 
RED CLOVER. 
Of the 1,217 samples of red clover seed secured, 405, or one-third, 
contained seed of dodder, 424 contained traces of yellow trefoil seed, 
and 135 bore evidence of having originated in Chile. 
TABLE 1.—Results of tests of samples of seed obtained in the open market as red clover 
seed and found to be adulterated or misbranded. 
Seed offered for sale as red clover by— | Seeds 
aes = fnot red 
Name. Address. clover. 
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! Per ct 
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4a Green foxtail and German millet. e Purchase sample. 
b Green foxtail. Buckhorn, 
27508—Cir. 26—08 
