LUiMKUL St^KlEi) iNU. 18o 



SEED LABORATORY REPORT 

 FOR THE SEASON 1959 



By the Seed Control Service StafiF of the 

 Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology 



John H. Lilly, Profes'ior and Head of Department 



Jessie L. Anderson, Assistant Professor 



Wendell P. Ditmer, Assistant Professor (Resigned) 



Waldo C. Lincoln, Jr., Instructor 



Kenneth Pellon, Laboratory Assistant 



William N. Rice, Associate Professor- 



May J. Honnay, Secretary 



A. W. Clapp, Chief State Seed Inspector* 

 Frank B. Allen, Slate Inspector^ 

 Paul W. Brown, State Inspector^ 

 Charles H. Callahan. State Inspector^ 

 Stephen Olynick, Stale Inspector''- 



From NovombcT 1, 1958 to November 1, 1959, The Seed Laboratory received 

 3195 samples of seed, oC which 1131 were collected by the State Department of 

 Agriculture and 2064' were sent in by seedsmen, farmers, and various Slate units. 

 Only the 1131 official samples are reported in the tables. 



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

 number of la;)oratory tes!? involved, is listed in the following summarv: 



NUMBER OF 

 SAMPLES 



360 Field Crops for Purity and Germination 



239 Field Crops for Germination 



3 Field Crops for Purity '. . . . . 



102 Lawn Mixtures and Other Types of Mixtures, for 



Purity: Germinations involving 460 ingredients. 

 85 Lawn Mixtures for Germination; Germinations in- 

 volving 291 ingredients 



2034 Vegetable Samples 



21 Tree Samples 



39 Tobacco Seed Samples 



312 Flower Seed Samples 



3195 



NTMKiiR oi'' ri';srs 



PURITY CKRMINA'IION 



360 



102 



465 



360 

 239 



460 



291 



2034 



21 



39 



312 



3756 



Field Tests to determine trueness-to-type consisted of 78 samples of vegetable 

 seed and 297 samples of flower seeds, respectively. 



The Seed Laboratory cleaned 39 lots of tobacco seed samples for Connecticut 

 Valley farmers. The gross weight of the tobacco seed samples was 23.98 pounds, 

 and the net weight for the cleaned seed was 19.20 pounds. 



'Employed by the State Department of -Agriculture. 

 •-Appointed August 21, 1959. 



