Central Office of Information; Department for Agriculture Scotland
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Film shows scientific breeding of cereals, grasses and root crops Shots of scientists in test fields. Narrator states main aim is to increase yields, ripening times and improve disease resistance. Main centres of Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Glasgow and Ayer. Cereals Good healthy crop shown, lodged [fallen] crop shown. Scene of four farmers scything lodged crop. Experimental field trials showing different crops. New varieties shown. In the laboratory cross-pollination of oats is shown. Close up of technique used. F1 first generation oats shown in field with protective box surrounding them. Man inspects F2 and later generations. Threshed in field, plant growth compared, selections shown close up, sheaves labelled, grains examined. Grains are dusted with a powder to reduce leaf stripe in oats, by machine. Machinery shown. Grasses Field of test grasses shown. Pots of grass, pollination shown. Trial areas of upland [Scotland] shown with cows, trial glen grazing areas shown. In a laboratory grass is weighed. Root Crops Harvesting potatoes with machinery with women waiting to collect them, close ups of potatoes. Close up of blighted potato plant. Healthy plant. Plant with leaf roll and mosaic disease. Grafting diseased sections of potato plant to healthy ones. Testing diseased varieties. Mexican and South American varieties shown. Field of potatoes shown. Man inspecting swedes or turnips. Diagram of food and water needed by plants. Clubroot disease of turnips and swedes shown. Recap on testing work. Central Office of Information Department for Agriculture, Scotland
