The Bulletin 99 



SEED THOUGHTS FOR NORTH CAROLINA FARMERS. 



1. Send samples of your seed to the North Carolina Seed Laboratory 

 for examination and test before you buy. It will pay you; there is no 

 charge. 



2. The North Carolina Seed Laboratory is all yours. Use it for 

 your own personal gain. Five cents will bring it right to your door, 

 where it will solve your seed problems, free of charge. 



3. Know what you are about to buy before you get it — you can't take 

 seeds out of the ground after they have been sown. ^ 



4. Send your tobacco seeds to the North Carolina Seed Laboratory 

 and have them recleaned — it will pay you, and we bear the expense. 



5. Ask your seedsman why he refuses to guarantee the purity or the 

 germination of his seed. If he will not guarantee his goods, send us a 

 sample before you buy and find the reason — you may decide to let them 

 remain HIS goods. 



6. Send three or four tablespoonfuls of your grass, clover and other 

 small seeds and about a cupful of coi'n, wheat, oats, peas and other seeds 

 of this size when submitting a sample to the Laboratory for examina- 

 tion. Write your name and address plainly on the package and address 

 it to the "North Carolina Seed Laboratory, Department of Agricul- 

 ture, Raleigh, N. C." State whether vou want us to examine it for 

 PURITY or GERMINATION. 



7. Do not buy or use "feed" oats for seed oats — tl^ey may have been 

 heated in the bin and may fail to come up. 



8. Seeds containing wild onions, wild mustard, couch grass, Canada 

 thistle, wild oats, clover or alfalfa dodder, corn cockle, dog fennel, 

 cheat, or Avild carrot are unlawful for sale, for seeding purposes, in 

 North Carolina. 



9. Would you sell your neighbor seed too impure and dirty to sow 

 on your own land? Then do not sell such seed to the seed dealer — 

 your neighbor or some other man's might get them from the seedsman. 



10. It is an agricultural sin, if not a moral crime, to sell clover seed 

 containing dodder or seed wheat containing onions or cockle from your 

 farm to a seedsman. Better sell such seed to your neighbor, who will 

 then know whom to sue for damages. 



11. All legitimate seed dealers in North Carolina have a license. Be- 

 ware of the seed fakir who asks fabulous prices for ordinary seeds. Buy 

 from honest seedsmen and leave the seed peddlers alone. 



12. Watch the man who is willing to sell you seed without having a 

 license. If he is willing to break the law for YOUR benefit, he might 



' be willing to sell you inferior seeds for HIS benefit. 



13. How many of your clover seed will come up from every hundred 

 planted ? 



14. When your seed fail to come up you lose doubly. 



