THE SEED 



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TABLE SHOWING THE WEIGHT PER BUSHEL OF GOOD QUALITY, 

 WELL-CLEANED SEED OF THE COMMON GRASSES 



Weight 



per Bushel 



Bent, Creeping 20 



Bent, Rhode Island .15 



Bermuda Grass 36 



Blue-grass, Canada , . . 20 



Blue-grass, Kentucky 28 



Bromus inermis 14 



Fescue, Meadow 27 . 



Fescue, Tall 24 



Fescue, Sheep's 16 



Johnson Grass 28 



Meadow-foxtail 14 



Millet, Common 50 



Millet, Hungarian ........ 50 



Millet, German 50 



Millet, Golden Wonder 50 



Millet, Broom-corn 60 



Orchard-grass -. 18 



Redtop 40 



Rye-grass, English 28 



Rye-grass, Italian 24 



Sweet Vernal 15 



Tall Meadow Oat-grass ...... 14 



Timothy 45 



WEED SEEDS 



The weed seeds found in commercial seeds are not 

 necessarily the most common weeds in the fields from 

 which the seed is saved. Only those will occur which 

 ripen at about the same time as the grass-seed and are 

 not easily cleaned out. Grass-seeds contain, on the 

 average, a much smaller percentage of weed seeds than 



