CONTROL SERIES NO. 183 



SEED LABORATORY REPORT 

 FOR THE SEASON 1959 



By the Seed Control Service Staff of the 

 Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology 



John H. Lilly, Professor and Head of Department 



Jessie L. Anderson, Assistant Professor 



Wendell P. Ditmer, Assistant Professor CResigned) 



Waldo C. Lincoln. Jr., Ivstructor 



Kenneth Pellon, Laboratory Assistant 



William N. Rice, Associate Professor'^ 



May J. Honnay, Secretary 



A. W. Clapp, Chief State Seed Inspector' 

 Frank B. Allen, Stale Inspector^ 

 Paul W. Brcwn, State Inspector^ 

 Charles H. Callahan, Slate Inspector^ 

 Stephen Olynick, Stale Inspector^ 



From Novpmbcr 1, 1958 lo November 1, 1959, The Seed Laboratory received 

 3195 samples of seed, of which 1131 were collected by the State Departmeal 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'ioratory tests involved, is listed in the following sumniarv: 



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 Typos 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 



NUMBliK nv TliSrS 

 PURITY C;ERMINAII()N 



360 



102 



465 



360 

 239 



460 



291 



2034 



21 



39 



312 



37.56 



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. 



