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Hybrid Tomato Seed Production Cost Cut Drastically by Self-Sterle Line Progress Report No. 35 Penn sylvania Agriculture Expeiiment Station? The Pennsylvania State University. Univeisity Park, Pa. Drastic cuts in the costs of producing hybrid tomato seed aie indicated in the-develop ment of a self-steule line with an unusually long style on the blos som Specimens of the plants beaiing the extiuded style were originally selected in genetic ma teuals at the Pennsylvania agri cultuial experiment station in 1951 by Dr B L Pollack Since that time. Di Pollack has ic-selected plants beaiing this character so that the style protrudes about a quarter-inch be yond the blossom, wheieas the original tomato plants had ex trusion? of only a thirty-second to a sixteenth of an inch Greenhouse, Field Trials In addition, Dr Pollack has grown the special materials for three years in both gieenhouse and held trials to definitely fix the character Eaiher work in 888888888888888 sterile lines showed wide varia tions in this chaiacter depending on vanous environmental fac tors Transfeis of the long-style sterile lines are now being made to more desirable tomato lines and thus pave the way for easier breeding of tomato hybrids Be cause of the extruded style, no pollen is shed on the surface of the stigma, and thus no §elfmg takes place, making the new type blossom ideal for first gen eration hybrid seed production with hand-pollination, Dr Pol lack explained He reported his findings at the last annual meet ing of the American Society for Hoi ticultural Sciences Commercial Prospects “This line eliminates the tedi ous operation of emasculating the blossom by hand” said Dr Pol lack, as he envisioned applica tion of such materials to com mercial production of hybrid tomato seed He has been using some ot the materials as the female line in his tomato breed ing work at Penn State and has produced seed at less than a tenth of the labor costs required with noimal parent lines Progress Report No. 36 With a few changes in con struction, ordinary 15-culbic foiit food freezers have maintained temperatures of 25 degrees be low zero, Fahrenheit, with no fluctuation of interior tempera tures, Professor John E Nicholas has found in experiments under wa at the Pennsylvania agricul tural experiment station “Few people realize the wide variations in temperature of foods as the ordinary freezer cycles on and off” says Profes sor Nicholas as he explained that all his previous studies point to superior quality of foods main lamed at temperatures below zero degrees Fahrenheit. . Test freezers, running in ordinary room temperatures, have the motor running con tinuously, instead of the usual cycling. However, in stead of the one-third horse power motor ordinarily ex pected, Professor Nicholas has installed a smaller mo tor, of one-sixth horsepower. Another innovation is removal of the coils which in current freezers are usually located under the outer shell of the freezer. Shifting these coils to a new lo cation adds the equivalent of an extra inch of insulation, Profes sor Nicholas explains, since the heat thrown off by the coils dur ing operation must be overcome to maintain low temperatures- He also encourages the addition of another inch of insulation, coni tending that too many manufac turers have sacrificed lower in terior temperatures to space-sav ing and attractive exteriors GUERNSEY MEET MAY 7-10 May 7-10 has been set for the 79th_annual meeting of the Amer ican Guernsey Cattle Club with the Pennsylvania state association as host. The meeting will be in Philadelphia and vicinity, with a purebred Guernsey sale and business session slated for May 9. “If frozen food of high quality is to be expected, then a freezer should be constructed to hold and maintain constant tempera tures low enough to preserve the quality m that food” he said. Thus far, operational costs, in cluding the electrical energy, have been less with continuous running than with the normal cycling methods, Professor Nicho las reports EXPECT TO MAKE AN EXTRA 4