1913. 



rUBLIC DOCUMENT — No. 31. 



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SEED WORK FOR THE YEAR 1912. 



G. E. STONE. 



Tlic seed work for 1012 has inchuled as usual seed germina- 

 tion, separation and testing for purity. There were 285 

 samples of seed sent in for germination, onion and to-bacco lead- 

 ing the list. The average germination of onion seed for 1912 

 was 75.3; the highest being 95 per cent, and the lowest 7 per 

 cent. The average for tobacco was 51.9; the highest 98 per 

 cent, and the lowest 0. Last season (1911) the average germi- 

 nation of onion seed was 70 per cent. ; the highest, 98 per cent., 

 and the lowest 20 per cent. For tobacco the average was 84 

 per cent.; the highest, 95 per cent., and the low^cst, 21 per cent. 

 The average germination for onion seed was slightly below that 

 given for a number of years, and that for tobacco was mueli 

 less, due no doubt to the effects of frost on the seed. 



Records of Seed Germination for 1912. 



Name of Seed. 



Onion, 

 Tobacco, 

 Clover, . 

 Grasses, . 

 Cabbage, 

 Carrot, 

 Oats, 



Sweet pea, 

 Turnip, . 

 Corn, 

 Beet, 

 Squash, 

 Miscellaneous, 

 Total, 



Number 



of 

 Samples. 



104 



50 



29 



29 



10 



9 



7 



7 



5 



4 



3 



3 



25 



285 



Per Cent, of Germination. 



Average. Highest. Lowest 



75 3 

 51.9 

 86.4 

 85.2 

 57.0 

 59.3 

 83.1 

 23.7 

 63.8 

 46.6 

 77.7 

 49 7 

 38 6 



95 

 98.0 

 99.0 

 97.5 

 85 

 90.0 

 98.0 

 85.0 

 91.0 

 63 

 91 

 62.0 



96 



7.0 







55.0 



20 5 



6 



34.0 



50 



4.0 







37.0 



70,0 



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