14 
Bulletin 110. 
No particular care or tricks of manipulation were used in order to 
seed'bec^un^er favorable Yond^ttensttm percentages of°seed^er^hia- 
failed to grow. 
No. of 
Samples 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
8 
9 
10 
11 
12 
RESULTS OF SPROUTING EXPERIMENTS— 1906 
Quality of Seed 
Age in 
Years 
Seed per 
Pound 
Prime seed . 1^ 
Prime seed . ^ 
Prime seed . .1^ 
Prime seed . ^ 
Prime seed . 1^ 
Prime seed . 1® 
Screenings, first quality ... H 
Screenings, first quality ... 12 
Screenings, first quality ... 13 
Screenings, second quality . . 12 
Screenings, third quality ... 11 
Prime seed . ^ 
206,837 
228,818 
208,821 
Per Cent. 
Germinating Average 
( 94 
259,340 
344,123 
266,233 
331,383 
312,385 
288,267 
91 
84 
80 
73 
76 
70 
76 
66 
66 
69 
57 
30 
36 
21 
11 
28 
48 
11 
17 
14 
14 
65 
70 
92.5 
82.0 
74 i 5 
73.0 
66.0 
i 
63.0 
33.0 
16.0 
38.0 
14.0 
14.0 
67.5 
Four other experiments were made with sample No. 1, because I 
eathered this seed myself in the summer of 1894 and the preceding 
tables sho w that in 12 years it has lost only 2.5 per cent of its germinat¬ 
ing power. The results at the end of five days were as follows. 
Seed Taken Rotted Hard Seeds Seeds Sprouted 
100 f t 94 
100 1 5 qq 
100 1 f qq 
The average of these four experiments is 94.25 per cent which 
is very nearly as high as the result obtained with this sample m 1896 
when h was only two years old. The results obtained with this sarn¬ 
ie 96 per cent germinating when the sample was two years old 
with «!.«„, precaution to pre- 
VeEt Sampfe N 0 o m 6”howT'quite a deterioration in the 10 years lapsing 
bampieiNo.os 4 . . when six years old this sample 
cut, though it hat, been hep. 
