Mechanical sorting of cinchona seeds.

Authors

  • K. Ebes

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18174/njas.v1i2.17879

Abstract

Tests have shown that the usual method of sorting cinchona seed by hand in transmitted light is unreliable. A machine constructed for winnowing the seed in a slow current of air proved quite satisfactory. A good correlation was obtained between number of seeds per gram and germination capacity of the winnowed seed. The cost of mechanical sorting was very much lower than that of hand sorting and the percentage of good seed to waste seed was considerably higher.-W. Java exp. Stat., Buitenzorg. (Abstract retrieved from CAB Abstracts by CABI’s permission)

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Published

1953-05-01

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 2 (1953)

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