248 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Sec. S. The results of all tests of seeds made by said director shall 

 be published by him in the bulletins or reports of the experiment sta- 

 tion, tofjethor with the names of Iho persons from whom the samples of 

 seeds were obtained. 



Sec. 9. Whoever deliberately or for gain, sells or exposes for 

 sale or for distribution in this State any agricultural seeds without 

 complying with the requirements of this act, or whoever violates any 

 other section or part of this act shall, upon conviction, be i)unished by 

 a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars and not to exceed two hundred 

 dollars, or in default of said fine and costs, by impnsonment for a 

 term not exceeding six months in the county jail, unless the said fine and 

 costs are sooner paid. 



Sec. 10. The provisions of this act shall not apply to any per- 

 son growing or selling cereals and other seeds for food, nor to seed 

 that is held in storage for the purj^ose of being re-cleaned, and which 

 has not been offered, exposed or held in possession for sale for the pur- 

 pose of seeding, nor to farmers selling to each other when no represen- 

 tation is made as to its purity. 



Sec. 11. All suits for the enforcement of penalties under the pro- 

 visions of this act shall be brought in the name of the people of the 

 State of Michigan, and any violation shall be deemed a misdemeanor 

 and tried in the same manner as other misdemeanoi*s are tried. 



Sec. 12. The necessary exjiense incurred in carrying ont the pro- 

 visions of this act shall be paid by warrant of the Auditor General 

 drawn upon the State Treasurer. An itemized bill of necessary expenses 

 shall be made and certified to by the director of said experiment sta- 

 tion as herein provided, at the rate of five dollars per day and necessary 

 traveling expenses for the time actually spent in perfonning the duties 

 herein required, but the total amount shall in no one year exceed the sum 

 of one thousand dollars. 



Sec. 13. AJl acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are 

 hereby repealed. 



Approved June 2, 1909. 



Complving with this act, the Director of the Experiment Station de])u- 

 tized Mr. F. S. Dunks in 1911 and I\rr. M. T. :\runn in 1912 to collect 

 samples of seeds offered for sale and had these samples so collected 

 analyzed under the immediate supeiTisiou of the Professor of Botany. 

 The present bulletin contains a discussion of the results of these analyses 

 together with recommendations for the improvement of the law regarding 

 the purity of agricultural seeds.^ 



In the year 1911, the seed inspector, Mr. Dunks, collected 444 samples 

 which will be referred to hereafter as the official samples of 1911 to dis- 

 tinguish them from the 303 unofficial samples sent in voluntarily by 

 various persons who wished information as to the purity of the samples 

 sent. In 1912 there were but 100 official samjiles but the number of un- 

 official samples up to October 1st had reached 309. 



Table I shows the number of violations of (his law in 1911 and 1912 



'In view of the fact that no samples of seeds were taken upon complaint or request of purchaser 

 in accordance with section' five_the following account does not give names of seed dealers samples 

 of whose seed were examined. 



