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Show Pure Seed Investigations. Since the publication of bulletin No. 88 of the Iowa experiment station on "Vitality, Adulteration and Impurities of Clover, Alfalfa and Timothy Seed" a large amount of important work has been done along these lines, especially from the standpoint of purity and vitality. vi-tality. The high price of agricultural ' seeds during the past year has made it especially important that buyers be sure of obtaining pure seed with a high percentage of vitality. The passage pas-sage of the pure seed law has been a long step in the right direction, but there is still a large amount of seed sold that is far below standard. The results of the latest investigation in this line have been published in bulletin bulle-tin No. S9 of the Iowa experiment station, sta-tion, which will be furnished free upon application to the director, Prof. C. F. Curtiss, at Ames, la. |