Norin No.42

One character is wrong in the opening line

"Paddy Rice Hokuriku No.103" was crossed in 1937 in the Ministry-designated paddy rice breeding trial at the Kamikawa Branch of the Hokkaido Agricultural Experiment Station, taking "Paddy Rice Norin No.1" as the mother and "Paddy Rice Norin No.19" (Hokkai No.79) as the father

"Hokuriku No.103." The breeding site is the Kamikawa Branch of the Hokkaido Agricultural Experiment Station and the line name is Hokkai No.103. Where it should read Hokkai it reads Hokuriku.

This was wrong on the paper report itself. After Hatsunishiki's "Ou No.244" (correctly 224) and Tedoriwase's "Etsunan No.5" (correctly No.6), this is the third.

It is quoted as it stands. Where a source goes wrong is material for deciding how to read it. All three are mistakes in a number or a symbol — not in a description of character or of a year.

The third case of Norin No.1 as the mother

The mother is Paddy Rice Norin No.1, the father Paddy Rice Norin No.19 (Hokkai No.79). Both carry Norin numbers, and the mother is Norin No.1.

On this site Norin No.1 appears on the mother's side in Paddy Rice Aiko No.2 (1931), Paddy Rice Fujisaka No.4, and now this — three cases. Nine documents put it on the father's side.

They do not divide by year, nor by place. Aiko No.2 is 1931 with it as mother; Paddy Rice Norin No.21 is the same 1931 with it as father. Within what this site can see, there is no rule to find.

The provisional name was nothing but a number

In 1942 it was given the provisional name "1735", and in 1945 the line name "Hokkai No.103"

"1735." For a time, before the line name, it carried a provisional name that was only a number.

NARO's listing holds 116 varieties that were named while having no regional number. One of them is "1718". The same four-digit way of numbering.

The character set out under kanji numerals

One. Its maturity is later than "Paddy Rice Norin No.20"'s but earlier than "Fukoku"'s, corresponding to the late-early class. Three. Both its resistance to cold-weather damage and its resistance to cold water are stronger than "Paddy Rice Norin No.20"'s. Five. Its lodging resistance is weaker than "Paddy Rice Norin No.20"'s, about that of "Paddy Rice Norin No.28". Seven. The grain is medium in size, quality "upper-middle", with somewhat frequent white belly, somewhat inferior to "Paddy Rice Norin No.20"'s.

Numbered one to seven, in kanji numerals.

Natsuminori used headings with explanations, Yamaseshirazu a list of fields, Mutsukogane the Western calendar. This makes a fourth format.

Five of the seven items compare it with Paddy Rice Norin No.20. Norin No.20 (Hokkai No.86) is also a child of Norin No.1 — so it keeps measuring itself against a half sibling.

Item five's comparison, Paddy Rice Norin No.28 (Hokkai No.89), has no historical document. The shape here is a document referring to a variety whose own record the database does not hold.

Made to replace a half sibling

From the characters above, this line suits cultivation as a cold-tolerant variety in place of "Paddy Rice Norin No.20" in the districts where that variety is grown and yet is prone to cold-weather damage — that is, in the very-early and earliest-variety districts

In place of Norin No.20.

Norin No.20 is a child of Norin No.1 and was Hokkaido's very-early variety. Where it met cold damage, another child of the same parent steps in to replace it.

The same shape as Wakakusa, made to fix Tarehonami's sprouting. A half sibling's weakness is filled in by a half sibling.