AGRICULTURAL LAWS OF 1913. 681 



The following laws passed by the legislature of 1913, with the admin- 

 istration of which the State Board of Agriculture is concerned, are 

 here re-])riutod for the benefit of those who are interested in them. 



The immediate administration of these acts has been placed in the 

 hands of the following persons: The seed law, Dr. E. A. Bessey, Pro- 

 fessor of Botany; the insecticide law. Professor A. J. Patten, Chemist 

 of the Experiment Station ; and the apiary law, Professor R. H. Pettit, 

 in charge of the Department of Entomology. 



ACT 202 P. A. 1913. 



An Act to regulate commerce in certain agricultural seeds and for 



other purposes. 



The People of the State of Michigan enact: 



Section 1. For the purposes of this act, agricultural seeds are defined 

 as the seeds of alfalfa, barley, Canadian blue grass, Kentucky blue grass, 

 brome (awnless) grass, buckwheat, alsike clover, crimson clover, red 

 clover, white clover, field corn, Kaffir corn, meadow fescue, flax, millet, 

 oats, orchard grass, rape, red top, ne, sorghum, timothy and wheat which 

 are to be used for sowing or seeding purposes. 



Sec. 2. Every lot of agricultural seed as defined in section one of 

 this act. which is offered or exposed for sale within this State for 

 seeding purposes in this State in lots of eight ounces or more, shall be 

 accompanied by a plainly written or printed statement in the English 

 language stating, except where agricultural seed, as defined in section 

 one of this act, is sold at retail from the original package, and said 

 original package being marked in accordance with the provisions of 

 this act: 



1. Xame of agricultural seed. 



2. Name and address of person selling or offering for sale such seed. 



3. The approximate percentage by weight of purity or freedom of 

 such seed from foreign matter or from other seeds distinguishable by 

 their appearance. 



4. The approximate percentage by weight of contamination, specifying 

 by name each kind present in greater proportion than one per cent by 

 weight of the whole. 



Sec. 3. The seeds of quack grass (Agropyron repens), Canada thistle 

 (Cirsium arvense), clover and alfalfa dodder (Cuscuta epithymum) and 

 field dodder (Cuscuta arvensis), are hereby defined as noxious weed 

 seeds. No person or persons, firm or corporation shall by himself, his 

 agent or representative of any other person, firm or corporation, offer or 

 expose for sale or distribution for seeding purposes in this State, or 



