. The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general. d in varying proportions with better seed andsold to the farmer. Sample No. 2 contained more than 95 per cent, of redclover seed that would grow, and was practically freefrom weed seeds. In order to sow the same amount ofgood seed from these samples, it would be necessary tosow pounds of the poor sample to one pound of theother. Every time 150 weed seeds were sown with thegood sample, 733,567 weed seeds would be sown with thepoor one. SIZE.—Red clover seed varies greatly
. The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general. d in varying proportions with better seed andsold to the farmer. Sample No. 2 contained more than 95 per cent, of redclover seed that would grow, and was practically freefrom weed seeds. In order to sow the same amount ofgood seed from these samples, it would be necessary tosow pounds of the poor sample to one pound of theother. Every time 150 weed seeds were sown with thegood sample, 733,567 weed seeds would be sown with thepoor one. SIZE.—Red clover seed varies greatly in size, thisbeing to a large extent a good indication of quality. Inaverage seed grown in the United States there are about300,000 seeds to the pound. English seed is somewhatlarger, having about 220,000 seeds to the pound, whileChilean seed is much larger, having only 190,000 seedsto the pound. There are frequently imported largelots of screenings similar to sample No. 1 referredto above, which are made up of light-colored cloverseed, very small in size, there often being as many as490,000 seeds to the sale of screenings or seeds containing weeds in quantity,it encourages the exportation of such seed from Canada. As a result of the conditions in Canada and Europethe United States, where quality is not considered ascarefully as it should be and where there are no restric-tions on sale of poor seeds, becomes a ready market forlow-grade seed. That this low-grade seed is not imported for the pur-pose of recleaning is shown by the fact that in sampleslike No. 1 previously referred to the red clover seedwhich will grow costs nearly twice as much as the bestclover seed offered on the market, notwithstanding thefact that this sample was imported at 5 1-5 cents per D°CHILEAN RED CLOVER.—Last year about 275,000pounds of Chilean red clover seed were imported. Thisis especially fine-looking seed on account of its darkcolor and extremelv large size. It has not been givena tho
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