WEED SEEDS IN FEED.
After three years of investigation work by the Canadian Seed Commissioner, Mr. G. H. Clark, an amendment lias teen ma le tn tho Bill establishing standards of equality for grain products so as to make it neres=ar.v (hat bran, shorts, and chop feed must be free from vital seeds of any noxious weeds mentioned in the Seed Control A ct. During the experimental work many samples of feed" were analysed, and it was found that on the average, bran, shorts, aud middlinis, as s6ld by retail dealers, contained 2-IG vital weed seeds a pound, crushed grains 077, inoals 1802, and feed nats (unground) 4022. _ These seeds included more than 50 species of plants troublesome as weeds . It is known that when consumed by farm animals a proportion of such wee<l seeds passes into the ! farm manure with vitality unimpaired.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1230, 12 September 1911, Page 8
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143WEED SEEDS IN FEED. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1230, 12 September 1911, Page 8
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