Show SMALL SEEDS EXCELLENT METHOD FOR OATS WHEAT ALFALFA ETC ordinary blotting paper with squares marked off will be found entirely satisfactory make the test every year by ZALL national crop improvement pro service A simple method of testing email grains for germination is to take an ordinary piece of white blotting pa per about five or six inches wide by 19 inches long told twice making pa per about square as in cut mix the sample thoroughly so that you count out seeds they will fairly represent the entire lot take them as they come large email shriveled smutted and weed coeds it there are any in the sample mark of squares on one page seeds wrapped in blotting paper of blotter after folding place one kernel in each square fold as shown in fig I 1 after wetting thoroughly wrap test in waxed buttered paper after inserting a strip of cloth about tifa inches long to act as a wick pile up the tests as in pig 2 with wicks leading into a glass of water keep cool but do not let the test freeze head the test in six to ten dayal ninety six seeds should geral nate it is important to test all of the seeds every year because for many reasons there are times when the germination of the seeds Is very low and many a poor crop as for in wicks lead to water stance the oat crop of 1913 Is jargelo due not only to the weather but to the fact that a great deal of the seed atas not in proper condition to plant |