Yields of Seed -crops 



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The yields of seeds (in lbs.) which may be expected 

 from an acre, under good conditions, are given below : 





When crop is 





Yield seedsmen 





as near maxi- 



A maximum 



would figure on 





mum as 20 bus. 



crop corre- 



in making con- 





of wheat would 



sponding to 



tracts for 













of good crop 



wheat 



quantities 



Bean 



600 



1,500 



500 









900 





(two years) 







Cucumber 



150 



700 



100 





125 



600 



100 



Pea 



900 



2,500 



800 



Squash, Winter . . 



100 



400 



100 



Squash, Summer. . 



100 



700 



100 



Sweet corn .... 



1,000 to 2,500 



2,500 to 4,000 



800 to 2,000 





(according to var.) 



Tomato 



100 



400 



100 



Watermelon . . . 



150 



1,000 



100 



Note.— There is no American work devoted to seeds and 

 seed-growing. Brill's "Farm-Gardening and Seed-Growing" 

 (Orange Judd Co.) contains brief " suggestions to seed-growers." 

 Because of the scanty literature, the foregoing chapter has been 

 made more extended than the nature of the book otherwise 

 would have allowed. The standard work on seeds is in German, 

 Nobbe's "Die Samenkunde." The seed-breeder will need the 

 information contained in Jager's "Erziehung der Pflanzen aus 

 Samen." 



