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Re: Seed Cleaning

On Sun, 4 Jan 1998 ChroniAbaloni@webtv.net wrote:

> I would be most grateful for any suggestions from foolproof, no-brainer
> ways, up to and including low-cost, small-scale professional equipment
> and sources. 

May I suggest Young's _Collecting, Processing, and Germinating Wildland
Seeds_ (Timber Press, if I remember right) for information on seed
cleaning (or seed conditioning as it's now called).

You might also want to look in a basic seed technology book like
Copeland's Principles of Seed Science and Technology, or maybe
the lab manual that accompanies that (which I've never seen).

Personally, if I had to choose just two items of equipment for
hand-processing small batches of seed, it would be a threshing box,
and a seed blower.  If I had three choices, I'd add a gravity table.

You might also call your state ag department and ask if there's any
flower or vegetable seed cleaning plants near you (they handle
more types of seeds than the average big crop plant will), or
if you're near an "official seed lab".  You may be able to make
arrangements to visit and watch some of the samples being worked.
Be aware, however, that this is *the* rush season in the northern
hemisphere, and visitors might not be welcome until things slack
off about the time spring planting starts.

Kay Lancaster  kay@fern.com (who spent several Christmas and New
Years Days planting germination analysis samples in a seed lab,
and remembers what the rush was like)
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