SEED INSPECTION 



SEED TESTING 

 FOR THE SEASON OF 1957 



By Seed Control Service Staff 



Wendell P. Ditmer, Assistant Research Professor 

 In Charge of Seed Laboratory 



Jessie Anderson, Assistant Research Professor Frank B. Allen, Stale Inspector^ 



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



A. W. ClapD, Slate Inspector^ Kenneth Ptlton, Laboratory Assistant 



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



From November 1, 1956, to November 1, 1957, the Seed Laboratory received 4944 

 samples of seed, of which 1.315 were collected by the State Department of Agricul- 

 ture and 3629 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 laboratorv tests involved, is listed in the following summary: 



NUMBER OF 

 SAMPLES 



351 Field Crops for Purity and Germination 



513 Field Crops for Germination 



2 Field Crops for Purity 



99 Lawn Mixtures and Other Types of Mixtures, for 



Purity; Germinations involving 445 ingredients 99 445 

 86 Lawn Mixtures for Germination; Germinations in- 

 volving 488 ingredients - : 488 



22 Lawn Mixtures for Purity 22 



3237 Vegetable Samples 3237 



24 Tree Seed Samples 24 



141 Tobacco Seed Samples - 141 



469 Flower Seed Samples 469 



4944 474 5668 



Field tests to determine trueness to type consisted of 174 samples of vegetable 

 seed and 376 samples of flower seeds, respectively. 



The Seed Laboratory cleaned 90 lots of tobacco seed samples for Connecticut 

 Valley farmers. The gross weight of the tobacco seed samples was 57.04 pounds, 

 and the net weight for the cleaned seed was 44.86 pounds. 



'Employed by the State Department of Agriculture. 



