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hundred dollars for the first violation and not less than one hun- 

 dred dollars nor more than two hundred dollars for the second 

 and each subsequent violation. "When such violation consists of 

 the manufacture or production of any prohibited article, each day 

 during which or any part of which such manufacture or produc- 

 tion is carried on or continued, shall be deemed a separate viola- 

 tion. When the violation consists of the sale, or the offering or 

 exposing for sale or exchange of any prohibited article or sub- 

 stance, the sale of each one of several packages shall constitute a 

 separate violation, and each day on which any such article or sub- 

 stance is offered or exposed for sale or exchange shall constitute a 

 separate violation. When the use of any such article or substance 

 is prohibited, each day during which or any part of which said 

 article or substance is so used or furnished for use, shall constitute 

 a separate violation, and the furnishing of the same for use to 

 each person to whom the same may be furnished shall constitute a 

 separate violation. Whoever by himself or another violates any 

 of the provisions of articles three, four, six, eight and nine or 

 sections three hundred fourteen and three hundred fifteen of this 

 chapter or of sections one hundred six, one hundred seven and one 

 hundred eight of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, 

 and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than 

 fifty dollars, nor more than two hundred dollars, or by imprison- 

 ment of not less than one month nor more than six months or by 

 both such fine and imprisonment, for the first offense ; and by six 

 months' imprisonment for the second offense. 



METHOD OF ANALYSIS. 



The method of analysis as required by the law is entirely 

 different from any in use at the present time. It is required that 

 the percentage of purity shall be determined by a " count " of the 

 number of foul or foreign seeds in a given quantity of crop seed. 

 In making the analyses reported in the following table, the rules 

 for seed testing as outlined in Office of Experiment Stations Cir. 

 No. 34 (Revised), 1904, were followed as closely as possible. The 



