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EXPERIMENT STATION. 



[Jan. 



Table 1. — Records of Seed Germination, 1908. 



Kind op Seed. 



Onion, . 

 Tobacco, 

 Celery, . 

 Corn, 

 Lettuce, . 

 Pansy, . 

 Miscell.aueous, 



Number 



of 

 Samples. 



196 



Germination. 



Average 

 Per Cent. 



74.2 



78.2 

 79.0 

 87.9 

 99.0 

 86.9 

 82.7 



Highest 

 Per Cent. 



98.5 

 97.0 

 98.0 

 100.0 

 100.0 

 100.0 

 100.0 



Lowest 

 Per Cent. 



Table 2. — Becords of Seed Separation, 1908. 



The average germination of the onion seed for 1908 is not as 

 high as for either of the two preceding years, some very poor 

 seed having been received. Onion seed was occasionally brought 

 in for testing which had been left over from previous years and 

 was too old for use. The corn and lettuce seeds received were 

 remarkably good samples, six lots of the lettuce seed giving 100 

 per cent, of germination, — a very unusual percentage. 



Only 2.5 per cent, was discarded from the best sample of 

 onion seed, 4.6 from the best tobacco seed and 9.3 per cent, from 

 the best celery seed. Erom the poorest onion seed 29.Y per 

 cent, was discarded, 20.9 per cent, from the poorest tobacco and 

 33% per cent, from some of the celery seed. The large per- 

 centage discarded, however, does not in all cases imply that the 

 seeds were poor: on the other hand, as much as 33% per cent, 

 was frequently discarded purposely, especially when the seed 

 was to be used for experimental purposes, which was the case 



