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put forth on the märket two winter wheat sorts, two rye sorts, one oat sort, two
pea sorts, and also strains of the most important forage grasses. It has also its
own sorts of vegetables as well.
One of the wheat sorts, Standard Wheat, which will be put forth this autumn
and which is intended for the southermost provinces is produced by artificial
Crossing between Iduna Wheat, from Weibullsholm about ten years older, and
a Danish sort. Storm Rye, characterized by its relatively short and stiff straw
which makes it easier to cut with selfibinding harvest*machines is produced from a
German sort, Petkuser Rye, by repeated selections four years in succession, the
first two years by line selection, the last two years by mass selection, by removing
before the plants bloomed, all such as had straw higher than the average height.
In specific yielding power, however, the Storm Rye is somewhat inferior to the
mother sort. A new sort, Storm Rye II, with short straw as the first Storm Rye,
but according to Heribert*Nilsson with a specific yielding power equal to Petkuser
Rye has been produced by sowing like portions of Storm Rye and another pedigree
with short straw together and letting them fertilize naturally.
The farms belonging to the firm occupy together an area of about 1,800
hektares, but it also has cultures by contracts with private farmers.
In view of the extension of the work and the knowledge of the object with
which the work is carried on it will undoubtedly be of great importance for the
Swedish agriculture. By its field root cultures, field root seed cultures and field
root improvement the firm has been of a very great importance for the develop*
ment of the Swedish field root growing.
In the year of 1906 the Swedish Sugar Manuf. Company began with seed culture
and improvement of sugar mangels with the purpose of making all import of
sugar mangel seed unnecessary. This work, which is lead by Dr. Hans Rasmusson
has given the desired results. Thus the crop of sugar mangel seeds produced last
year is adequate to the need of such seeds in Sweden. The sugar mangels grown
from these native seeds can readily be compared with the best imported sorts and
are in several cases even superior to these, this owing to the improvement work
consequently carried on.
Finally, since some years a rather extensive breeding of vegetables is carried
on partly at the horticultural division of the Agricultural College at Alnarp, situ*
ated about lh a Swedish mile from Malmö, the work being lead by Mr. J. Rasmusson,
and partly at one of the farms near Malmö, belonging to the General Swedish Seed
Company at Svalöf, the work being lead by Professor H. NilssonÆhle and Dr.
K. Kristoffersson. The improvement work has not as yet been carried on long
enough to be able to influence the cultivation of vegetables in Sweden, but new
improved sorts of different plants are now ready. And there is no doubt that
the work will contribute to the improvement of this cultivation by providing
better and more profitable material for it.
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