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and shrivelled kernels in alternate rows. The germination 

 appeared much the same but the plants in the rows sowed from 

 plump grain soon began to gain on the others and kept ahead 

 for the remainder of the season. The tillering was better 

 in the plump grain. The average of the plants that grew was 

 92.7 % for the plump and 88.5$ for the shrivelled: the plump 

 produced and average of 180 heads from each row which origin- 

 ally was planted with 150 seeds, giving a tillering power of 

 1.J5E. The tillering power of the shrivelled seed was 1.23 

 and the yield per acre in bushels was 9.8 for the plump and 

 7.5 for the shrivelled. 



Von Liebenberg (15) working with red clover fount that 

 the smaller the seed the less favorable the result. 



P. de Caluwe (16) working with oats to ascertain the 

 effect of different sizes of seed reports that very large, 

 large, ordinary, small and very small grains of oats were 

 sown; all at the rate of 111 pounds per acre. The yields of 

 grain were slightly in favor of the small and ordinary seed. 

 The result was attributed to the greater number of grains 

 sown per plat with the smaller classes of seed. The author 

 considers it advisable to employ a greater weight of large 

 than of small seed. 



In a test of whole and cut tubers of potatoes the same author 

 (17) says that the largest yield, after deduction of the seed 

 potatoes planted, was afforded by the large whole tubers, 

 and the next largest yield by the medium sized whole potatoes. 



The yield of large and small seed of wheat is reported 

 by Despres (18) as being the greatest from large seed except 

 in two cases where there was a larger yield of straw for the 



