SEED INSPECTION 



SEED TESTING 

 FOR THE SEASON OF 1955 



By Seed Control Service Staff 



Wendell P. Ditmer, Assistant Research Professor 

 In Charge of Seed Laboratory 



Jessie L. Anderson, Assistant Research Professor Mrs. Phyllis Russell, Laboratory Assistant 



Waldo C. Lincoln, Jr., Research Instructor Paul Korpifa Laboratory Assistant 



A. W. Clapp, State Inspector^ Leon Stowell, Laboratory Helper 



Paul W. Brown, State Inspector^ May J. Honnay, Senior Clerk 



From January 1, 1955, to November 1, 1955, the Seed Laboratory received 4046 

 samples of seed, of which 1454 were collected by the State Department of Agricul- 

 ture and 2592 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 



NUMBER OF TESTS 

 PURITY GERMINATION 



364 Field Crops for Purity and Germination 364 364 



130 Field Crops for Germination ..- -- 130 



2 Field Crops for Purity .- - 2 



108 Lawn Mixtures and Other Types of Mixtures, for 



Purity; Germinations involving 458 ingredients 108 458 



3 Lawn Mixtures for Germination ; Germinations in- 

 volving 13 ingredients - - - -- l^ 



12 Lawn Mixtures for Purity 12 



2978 Vegetable Samples - 2978 



10 Tree Seed Samples 1^ 



71 Tobacco Seed Samples - '1 



368 Flower Seed Samples .- 368 



4046 



486 4292 



Field tests to determine trueness to type consisted of 215 samples of vegetable 

 seed and 363 samples of flower seeds, respectively. 



The Seed Laboratory cleaned 71 lots of tobacco seed samples for Connecticut 

 Valley farmers. The gross weight of the tobacco seed samples was 30.62 pounds, 

 and the net weight for the cleaned seed was 24.43 pounds. 



1 Employed by the State Department of Agriculture. 



