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from the top of every can, vessel, or package containing such 

 milk, and such metal label, tag, or mark shall have the vrords 

 " Skimmed Milk" stamped, printed, or indented thereon in letters 

 not less than one inch in height, and such milk shall only be sold 

 or retailed out of a can, vessel, or package so marked. 



Sec. 4. No person shall sell or offer for sale, or shall have in 

 possession with intent to sell or offer for sale, any impure or adul- 

 terated milk. 



Sec. 5. Every person who shall violate the provisions of 

 sections three and four of -this act shall be deemed guilty of a 

 misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined not more 

 than seven dollars, or be imprisoned not more than thii'ty days or 



both. 



Sec. 6. A printed notice of this law shall be conspicuously 

 posted in all public places, creameries, or factories where milk is 

 received or sold. 



Approved, April 25, 1882. 



SEED TESTS. 



By Dr. E. H. Jenkins. 



In the following table are given the results of twenty-four seed 

 tests, some of them made in the interest of dealers and some for 

 private parties. 



The percentage of seed which germinates in these laboratory 

 tests does not, and is not claimed to represent exactly the amount 

 which will actually grow to produce healthy plants in farm prac- 

 tice. A seed is counted as o-ood when the rootlet has burst the 

 seed coat and grown to the length of a millimeter, (^ inch), 

 in an apparently ' healthy manner. It may not, however, have 

 strength enough left to push its way to the surface of the ground 

 and develop normally. On the farm the success of a planting 

 depends on many things besides the vitality of the seed, viz : on 

 depth of planting, temperature, moisture, etc., and when com- 

 plaint is made of a poor " catch," the seedsman is slow to 

 acknowledge that the trouble was in the seed rather than in the 

 manner of planting, or the unfavorable weather prevailing at the 

 time. Since in a carefully conducted laboratory test the access 

 of air and light to the seed, the supply of moisture and the tem- 

 perature can all be very perfectly regulated, the results will in all 



