CONTROL SERIES NO. 179 



SEED LABORATORY 

 FOR THE SEASON OF 1958 



By the Seed Control Serviee Staff" of the 

 Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology 



John H. Lilly. Professor and Head of Department 

 Wendell P. Ditmer, Assistant Research Professor 



Jessie L. Anderson, Assistant Research Professor May J. Honnay, Secretary 



Waldo C Lincoln, Jr., Research Instructor A. W. Clapp, Stale Inspector^ 



Kenneth Pelton, Laboratorv Assistant Paul W. Brown, State Inspector^ 



Frank B. Allen, State Inspector^ 



From November ], 1957 to November 1, 1958, The Seed Laboratory received 3725 

 samples of seed, of which 1263 Mere collected by the State Department of Agricul- 

 ture and 2462 were sent in by seedsmen, farmers, and various State units. Only the 

 1263 ofiicia! samples are reported ia the tables. 



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 NUMBER OF TESTS 



SAMPLES PURITY GERMINATION 



387 Field Crops for Purity and Germination 387 387 



356 Field Crops for Germination ... 356 



1 Field Crop for Purity 1 



166 Lawn Mixtures and Other Types of Mixtures, for 



Purity: Germinations involving 741 ingredients 166 741 

 78 Lawn Mixtures for Germination; Germinations 



involving 296 ingredients ... 296 



23 Lawn Mixtures for Purity 23 



2258 Vegetable Samples 2258 



10 Tree Samples 10 



48 Tobacco Seed Samples ... 48 



398 Flower Seed Samples 398 



3725 577 4504 



Field Tests to determine trueness-to-iype consisted of 97 samples of vegetable seed 

 and 373 samples of flower seeds, respectively. 



The Seed Laboratory cleaned 48 lots of tobacco seed samples for Connecticut 

 Valley farmers. The gross weight of the tobacco seed samples was 26.50 pounds, 

 and the net weight for the cleaned seed was 21.29 pounds. 



'Employed by the State Department of -Agriculture. 



