Show TREAT E HARD ALFALFA FA unyielding coats coat prove prevent nt them r taking up water fro beadil readily y D laying germination in testing alfalfa seed for ei tion it will bo be noticed that 00 acme me 10 eede will not germinate although they 0 healthy in ira n appearance and not decalb at the end of the test these tolma bard aard seeds they have baye IT wis un 1 usually hard seed coats which prevent preveat them from taking up water read readily ll 1 these theeo seeds germinate rea readily dily when 1 the seed coats are scratched scratch ad in ift lor mer years it was thought that hart barl seeds in alfalfa and clover were as aa sa much inert matter it 3 reasonable it however to believe that many of th tha seeds become sufficiently sufficient Y scratched 11 during seeding operations opera tlona that they will grow at once while others III hf gro grow w later experimental I 1 work Is being done along this line and it la is hoped that soon the hard boeda a c bedr in alfalfa will be found nearly a as useful as the others it la Is found th that at alfalfa altal L seed from the various states differs gr greatly batly as 88 to the perce percentage of h hard ard seeds the minnesota seed laboratory la its enforcement of the now new seed geed la law has made a regulation rega regarding arding the th hard seeds in alfalfa and the clovers as follows that in placing the ger mi test on the gabl when seed Is sold one half the percentage of 01 hard se seed ad may be added to the taga tage of seeds that germinated |