Show quality of clover seed Is rated poor early offerings are from last years product prepared by the th united states bat of because me demand for crimson clover seed proc precedes edes the arrival of the new crop seed by several weeks tho the early offerings are all from seed hold held over from the previous pro loua year in order to obtain direct information regarding the quality of crimson climso a clover seed on tho the early market the seed testing laboratory of tho the bureau of plant industry of tho the department of agriculture tins has obtained from representative senta tive dealers over one hundred samples of crimson clover seed and tested them for germi germination nution ten per cent of the samples obtained during june of this year contained less than 05 per cent of live seed as compared to 40 per t tent ent of tho the samples similarly obtained luring during june 1023 although tho the quality of crimson clover seed offered tills this your year la Is better than it was last year nevertheless this year there la Is one chance in ten of getting poor seed crimson seed should not be planted without a previous germination test these samples which tested loss less thun than 05 65 per cent are of such poor qu quality a I 1 eliat they would not be permitted entry into tho the united states under tho the seed importation act in a sample which germinates poorly oven even the live seed tins has not the vigor of seed of higher germination therefore the planting of seed of 0 this quality reduces tho the chances of getting a good stand of cri crimson nison clover seed |