CROPS, GRAIN 1

B (Rev.)
REGISTERED SEED PAYS

Data for this article supplied by the Dominion Seed Branch, the Manitoba Seed Growers’ Associa-
tion, the Saskatchewan Registered Seed Association, the Alberta Seed Growers’ Association,
and the Educational Committee of the C.S.G.A.

For further information on this subject write your nearest Agricultural College or
Experimental Farm. For list of these see Farm News Sheet No. 46.

ISSUED BY

fr EATON’S FARM NEWS SERVICE
WINNIPEG, CANADA

FIELD INSPECTION OF THE CROP

1. Registered seed is at least 99% pure. 2. Registered seed is properly cleaned.
3. Each lot is tested for germination. Registered No. 1 wheat must germinate at
least 90%, oats 85%, barley 85%.

4. Each sack is individually inspected and sealed by a Dominion Government seed
inspector, who also seals to each sack a tag, showing the variety, generation,
seed inspection number and the name of the seller.

5. Only varieties of proven worth and outstanding merit, determined by careful
tests at experimental stations and on the farms, are accepted for registration.

6. Registered seed is inspected in the field previous to harvest. If the crop is not
true to type, free from disease and pure as to variety, registration is refused.

7. Registered seed is seed produced from plants which have been selected for
sueh valuable characteristics as high yielding ability, drought, disease and frost
resistance, stiffness of straw, etc. These qualities make the seed more desirable
and more profitable to use than seed purchased in the ordinary way, with the
origin and pedigree unknown.

8. Registered seed is seed with a recorded ancestry; of good variety, free from
impurities and weeds; of good sample appearance, of strong vitality, and cleaned,
graded and sealed.

At the annual meeting of the Canadian Seed Growers’ Association, held in Quebec

City, June 16th, 1928, the following minimum standards of Registered Seed Grades, No. 1,
No. 2 and No. 3, were adopted:

Other
yen Germination Primary | Secondary Total All Other | Distinguishable
Grade per cent. Noxious Noxious Weed Seeds Cult. Varieties
f per lb. Seeds per lb.
*(1) (2) (3) (7) (6) (5)
SS 1 in
/Reg. No. 1... 90 85 Free Free (3) 3 2 Ibs. 2
a 2 in
Reg. No. 2... 85 80 ss Free (3 & 4) 10 1 Ib. 3
s 10 in
Reg. No. 3... 75 70 ve 4 in 1 bus. 20 1 Ib. 5

*(1) Common wheat, flax, buckwheat, field peas, field beans.
(2) Oats, barley, rye, durum wheat, soy beans, corn. [OVER