Excerpt from Effect of Storage on Yields of Farm Seed Treated for Disease Control: Wheat, Oats, Barley, Corn C arm - Several types of experiments with treated corn were con ducted during the last nine years to determine the effects of different storage conditions on subsequent yields of the planted seed. Lots Of seed were stored in a moderately heated building while other lots were stored in an open shed. Some seed was sealed air-tight in quart jars. Several organic mercury disinfectants were applied. Only one rate of ...
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Excerpt from Effect of Storage on Yields of Farm Seed Treated for Disease Control: Wheat, Oats, Barley, Corn C arm - Several types of experiments with treated corn were con ducted during the last nine years to determine the effects of different storage conditions on subsequent yields of the planted seed. Lots Of seed were stored in a moderately heated building while other lots were stored in an open shed. Some seed was sealed air-tight in quart jars. Several organic mercury disinfectants were applied. Only one rate of application, about ounces a bushel, was used, but the periods of storage ranged from one day to one year. Some of the treated corn was stored with moisture contents of 17, 15, and 12 percent. Contrary to results with seed of small grain, seed corn was not injured when the same rate of mercurial disinfectant was applied one year before sowing as was applied when the seed was treated and stored for one day. Corn grown from seed stored at 17 and at 15 per cent moisture produced yields inferior to corn grown from seed stored at 12 percent moisture. Since this was true whether the seed was treated or untreated, the difference in yield was apparently not due to the combined action of the moisture and the disinfectant but to the effect of the moisture alone. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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