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WET SAWDUST METHOD. 
Use four parts of sawdust prepared as described, two parts of seeds, 
and one part of water, all l>y measure. Sprinkle the sawdust with 
water, stirring or mixing meanwhile until the sawdust i- uniformly 
moistened. An ordinary watering pol may be used for this purpose. 
Mis in the seeds thoroughly. Compress the moist mass with the 
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hands or a shovel and let it stand for aboul fifteen minutes so that 
the buckhorn seeds may have time to thoroughly absorb moisture and 
become adhesive. Then break up the mass and spread out before a 
fan, in a current of air, or in a seed drier until quite dry. When 
dry. separate l>y any of the methods above described. 
AN ALTERNATIVE METHOD. 
Sawdust, eight parts; seeds, four parts; water, three parts. Mix 
the dry seeds and dry sawdust together; then sprinkle the water in 
and mix thoroughly, a- in the process just described. Separate as 
before. 
WET SAND METHOD. 
Proceed exactly as with the wet sawdusl methods, using the same 
proportions, but with perhaps rather less water. 
AGGLUTINATIVE METHOD. 
Moisten the seeds as in the wet sawdust method; drain them thor- 
oughly; place them in a pervious vessel of any kind. In these ex 
periments a piece of perforated sheet zinc was converted into a cj lin- 
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