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Show In Buying Clover Seed. A bulletin , of the . Department oi Agriculture says: The prices charged for clover seed vary greatly, each large dealer having two or more grades, of different prices. Unfortunately Unfor-tunately for the buyer, each dealer has his own grade names, and even the standard terms, prime, choice and fancy, as used by different dealers, do not always mean the same thing. If for these indefinite terms could be substituted a statement of the percentage per-centage of pure and germinable seed, the buyer could tell at once what sample sam-ple was the most advantageous for him to buy. It is a safe general conclusion con-clusion that the sample which, while reasonably free from weed seeds, contains con-tains the largest amount of pure and vigorously germinating' clover at the least cost is the best one for the farmer to buy. Low-priced samples seldom fulfill this condition, nor do those sold at exorbitantly high prices. Usually the high grade, medium priced samples are really . the cheapest, cheap-est, but the only way to determine the value of a sample is to test the seed The result of the purity test shows how much pure seed is present and the germination test determines how much of this pure seed will grow. |