SEED INSPECTION 



SEED TESTING 

 FOR THE SEASON OF 1956 



By Seed Control Service Staff 



Wendell P. Ditmer, Assistant Research Professor 

 In Charge of Seed Laboratory 



Jessie L. Anderson, Assistant Research Professor Paul Korpita, Laboratory Assistant 



Waldo C. Lincoln, Jr., Research Instructor Leon Stowell, Laboratory Helper 



A. W. Clapp, State Inspector^ May J. Honnay, Senior Clerk 

 Paul W. Brown, State Inspector^ 



From November 1, 1955, to November 1, 1956, the Seed Laboratory received 4866 

 samples of seed, of which 1323 were collected by the State Department of Agricul- 

 ture and 3543 were sent in by seedsmen, farmers, and various State institutions. 



Classification of the samples for which tests were completed, with the total num- 

 ber of laboratory tests involved, is listed in the following summary: 



NUMBER OF 

 SAMPLES 



287 Field Crops for Purity and Germination 



384 Field Crops for Germination 



2 Field Crops for Purity 



160 Lawn Mixtures and Other Types of Mixtures, for 



Purity; Germinations involving 711 ingredients 160 711 

 81 Lawn Mixtures for Germination; Germinations in- 

 volving 332 ingredients 332 



21 Lawn Mixtures for Purity 21 



3480 Vegetable Samples 3480 



11 Tree Seed Samples 11 



47 Tobacco Seed Samples 47 



393 Flower Seed Samples 393 



4866 389 5645 



Field tests to determine trueness to type consisted of 175 samples of vegetable 

 seed and 352 samples of flower seeds, respectively. 



The Seed Laboratory cleaned 28 lots of tobacco seed samples for Connecticut 

 Valley farmers. The gross weight of the tobacco seed samples was 24.75 pounds, 

 and the net weight for the cleaned seed was 19.75 pounds. 



'Employed by the State Department of Agriculture. 



