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alfalfa, Canadian blue grass, Kentucky blue grass, alsike clover, 

 crimson clover, red clover, white clover, vetch orchard grass, rape, 

 red top, and timothy which are to be used for sowing or seeding 

 purposes. No person, firm or corporation shall sell, offer, expose 

 or have in his possession for sale for the purposes of seeding, any 

 seeds of grasses or clovers, of the kind known as agricultural seeds 

 containing in excess of three per centum by count of foul or 

 foreign seeds, unless every receptacle, package, sack or bag con- 

 taining such seeds is plainly marked or labeled with the per 

 centum of such foul or foreign seeds contained therein. 



§ 341. Samples, publication of results of examination. The 

 commissioner of agriculture or his duly authorized representatives 

 shall take samples of seed in triplicate in the presence of at least 

 one witness and in the presence of such witness shall seal such 

 samples and shall at the time of taking tender, and if accepted, 

 deliver to the person apparently in charge one of such samples; 

 one of the other samples the commissioner of agriculture shall 

 cause to be analyzed. The director of the New York agricultural 

 experiment station shall analyze or cause to be analyzed such 

 samples of seeds taken under the provisions of this article as shall 

 be submitted to him for that purpose by the commissioner of agri- 

 culture and shall report such analysis to the commissioner of 

 agriculture, and for this purpose the New York agricultural ex- 

 periment station may employ experts and incur such expenses as 

 may be necessary to comply with the requirements of this article. 

 The result of the analysis of the sample or samples so procured, 

 together with such additional information as circumstances advise, 

 shall be published in reports or bulletins from time to time. 



Penalties. 



Section 52 of the Agricultural Law relates to penalties and is 

 as follows : 



§ 52. Penalties. — Every person violating any of the provisions 

 of this chapter, shall forfeit to the people of the state of New 

 York the sum of not less than fifty dollars nor more than one 



