Show TEST SEED FOR GERMINATION Proper Rate of Seeding Can Be Determined Determined De De- by Use of Wet Paper and Two Dinner Plates Most of the commoner seeds including In in- eluding the cereals clover and alfalfa may bo be tested for germination easily and quickly on the farm Take a fair sample o of the seed to bo be planted and count seeds Fold a n newspaper so there will be a dozen six by twelve Inches soak It In water squeeze out so It will not drip and lay layn layon layon on n a dinner plate Place the suds seeds s on the paper so they will not touch each other and fold told the wet paper over the top to cover them Turn another dinner dinner din din- ner plate plato over this and keep at nt room temperature for four or five days Examine the seeds and count out those which havo have germinated and if there are still sUll seeds which have haye neither germinated nor decayed wet the paper again If necessary and set away for two or three days more and again count those which have germinated This shows the proportion jot of live seed and the proper rate of seeding Is d determined determined de de- accordingly |