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FARM SEEDS” 
What They Are-Why They Are Better 
Gro-Coating treatment places a protective chemical coating around 
each individual seed. These chemicals are absolutely harmless to 
grass or clover or any farm seed. It can be on there for two years or 
more without hurting the germination. 
These chemicals, however, are very deadly to fungi and other 
disease organisms that often attack seed while it is sprouting or kill 
the seediing plants when they are smail. Thousands, yes millions, 
of grasses and clover plants die on farms every year. 
You sow, for example, Alfalfa seed at 12 pounds per acre. That 
is almost 3,000,000 seeds per acre. If this seed germinates 90%, that 
leaves you 2,700,000 live seeds per acre. There are around 43,000 
square feet per acre. Thus, your seeding gives you 60 live seeds per 
square foot. There wouldn’t be room for that many full grown plants, 
yet often you fail to get any stand at all. Why is that? 
Why Seedings Fail 



There are many reasons why seedings may fail. Perhaps the 
most common reasons that we are familiar with are having the seed 
bed too loose or covering the seed too deep. The condition of the 
soil is important on some crops. Legumes, for instance, like sweet 
soil and liming is often necessary. The use of a nurse crop may in- 
jure stands. On foul land weeds may choke out stands. The weather 
is important; it can be too wet or too dry. 
The Effect of Diseases on Stands 
There is another factor that we have not generally known about, 
simply because we did not see it work. There are disease organisms 
