EXPEEIMENT STATION EEPORT. 



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TABLE OF "JACKSON WONDEK" CROSSES. 



The above table records the principal seed colors ("J. AV. type," 

 "Dark-red," White"), and represents an attempt to compare this 

 year's percentage with those for 1908. The seeds of the recent har- 

 vest date back to "Grand-parents" of the same color ; that is, from 

 the "Dark-red" of 1907, a selection was made which produced the 

 dark red seeded plants of 1908^ and ten of these, yielding in turn 

 the same type of seed, were selected for this year's crop. It is not 

 yet proved that the "Dark-red" will transmit its color without an 

 occa^onal exception, nor can the parent types be considered as 

 established. 



That the dark red seed can be obtained by simple selection from 

 commercial seed, has been shown by the following experiment. 

 From a quantity of "J. W." beans, some of the lighter mottled" 

 were taken (1906), also those which came nearest having a solid, 

 dark color, and plantings were made from each, care being taken 

 to grow them as far apart as possible. The result at harvest time 

 is well illustrated in Plate XII. (Annual Report, 1906), number 3 

 showing the "Selected dark" lot and 5 the "light," with the Com- 

 mercial "J. W." at 4 for comparison. For the 1907 plantins; the 

 darkest were chosen from 3 and the lightest from 5, the crop yield- 

 ing, in respect to the dark red, more seeds of a solid color than 

 those of the preceding year, but the "light" selection shows no 



