| Show HEAVY SEED DOES NOT INCREASE YIELD tests made at nebraska experiment station on different sized kernels of inte interest iest by JAMES D MARSHAL manashall MAn SHALL colorado agricultural college during the past ton ten years a great many experiments have been conduct ed by various experiment stations to determine the relative effect of dit beront elded kornela kernels on the quantity and quality of grain produced per acre the work at the th e nebraska experiment peri pori ment station elation la Is worthy of note on this particular subject toots teats here werra were made with wheat the fanning mill being used to make the seed separations in the testa teats turkey red a hard winter wheat and ule big frame a soft winter wheat were used A lot of 11 sed eed from each of the above varieties was separated into two parts the heavier and the lighter halves these were again separated into the heaviest heavy and the lightest light being sown to check results ordinary seed as it camo came from the separator was planted tho the same method was followed each year for a period of eight years the seed from each crop of the heaviest heavy and the lightest light was separated and only the heaviest quarter ot of the heaviest heavy and the lightest quarter of the lightest light were used tor for seed at the end of the experiment the a average geragd yields tor for the three kinds of s seeds were practically the same while the average weights per bushel from the crops harvested showed hardly any difference in favor of any one selection of the heaviest seed for particular kind of seed from the above results it is evident that the selection of the heaviest seed tor for sowing sawing purposes will not materially increase the tha yield per acre or the weight per bushel of the crop harvested |
