SEED IMPROVEMENT MEETING. 243 



Section i. Any person engaged in the practice of agri- 

 culture, in any of its various phases, instructors of the Maine 

 Agricultural "College, Experiment Station and Department of 

 Agriculture, shall be entitled to become active members of the 

 association. 



That section two be amended by striking out the section 

 entire and substituting therefor the following: 



Section 2. There shall be two classes of active members. 

 These classes shall be 



(A) Those members engaged in the breeding and sale of 

 improved seed, entitled as hereinafter provided for, to bear 

 the Tag of Purity and Merit of the ]\Iaine Seed Improvement 

 A.ssociation, and 



(B) Those members not engaged in the breeding and sale 

 of seed bearing the tag. 



That a section be added as follows, to be known as section 3 : 

 Section 3. Any active member may be registered in Class 



A upon fulfilling the requirements for admission to this class, 



which are as follows : 



The prospective Class A member shall 



1. Open his entire farm to inspection at any time by any 

 person duly authorized and delegated by the committee on seed 

 breeding. 



2. Agree to follow exactly, so far as is possible, all direc- 

 tions as to the culture and breeding of the crops from which 

 he proposes to sell seed bearing the Tag of Purity and Merit, 

 which may be given him by the committee on seed breeding. 



3. Agree to sell no seed which does not contain a statement 

 of the percentage of purity, and germinating test. 



4. Agree to submit annually to the secretary of the asso- 

 ciation 



(a) A report of his operations for the year past, including 

 the amount and kinds of seed he proposes to sell. 



(b) A representative sample of every kind of seed which he 

 proposes to sell. 



That a section be added as follows to be known as section 4 : 

 Section 4. Associate members. Any person interested in 

 advancing agriculture and in sympathy with the aims and pur- 

 poses of the association may be admitted to associate member- 

 ship by vote of the association at any regular or special meet- 



