SCANDINAVIAN SEED-CONTROL STATIONS. 7 



director is dependent upon the analysis fees as payment for his serv- 

 ices. The stations presenting a fall report of their receipts and 

 expenditures during 1894-95 received from 57.8 crowns (Lulea) to 

 2,071.58 crowns (Stockholm) in analysis fees (equivalent to $15.49 to 

 $555.28, respectively). The stations report to the State Agricultural 

 Department (Kongl. Landtbruhsstyrelsen) and work under the regula- 

 tions prescribed by the Department. 



The total number of seed samples analyzed annually by the stations 

 has of late years exceeded 0,000. In 1894, 6,581 samples were analyzed, 

 and in 1895, 7,078 samples. Of the latter number, 2,400 samples were 

 analyzed for farmers, 3,770 for seedsmen, and 842 samples were bought 

 in the open market by the stations themselves; 5,153 complete and 

 1,925 partial analyses were made. In addition to this analytical work 

 a majority of the stations furnish to seedsmen tags guaranteeing the 

 quality of seed in bags from which samples are drawn and analyzed. 



Finland. — Two seed-control stations are in operation in Finland, one 

 in Helsingfors and one in Aabo, established in 1880 and 1882, respec- 

 tively. Both stations are operated in connection with a chemical sta- 

 tion, and are supported partly by the Government and partly by annual 

 grants from the city in which each is located. The number of analyses 

 (including chemical analyses) made during 1895 at the Helsingfors 

 station is given as 2,435, 412 being seed analyses. At Aabo 1,006 

 analyses were made in 1895, of which number 225 were seed samples. 



Norway. — Official seed control was organized in Norway in the begin- 

 ning of 1884, when the seed-control station at Haug was established by 

 the Agricultural Society of Kristians ami (county). Later (in 1880) 

 control stations were established in Ohristiania, Hainar, and Trondhjem, 

 and the station at Haug was discontinued. The Ohristiania station is 

 largely supported by an annual appropriation from the patriotic Society 

 for Norway's Weal ( SelsTcabfor Worges Vel), while the other stations have 

 small subsidies from the counties in which they are located and are 

 primarily dependent for their support on the analysis fees received. 



The number of analyses made at the Ohristiania control station during 

 the decade 1886-1897 aggregates 2,029, viz, 1,724 complete and 305 

 partial analyses. About 200 samples are analyzed annually. 



METHODS OF ANALYSIS. 



The methods of analysis in vogue in the seed-control stations of the 

 Scandinavian countries were worked out by representatives of the 

 three countries, constituting the Scandinavian seed control committee, 

 in meetings held in Copenhagen in the latter part of 1890. The rules 

 proposed by this committee were subsequently approved by the respec- 

 tive government authorities, with but insignificant changes. The meth- 

 ods and regulations concerning the seed control have therefore during 

 late years been essentially the same in all the Scandinavian countries 

 and in Finland as well. A summary of the methods of analysis and the 

 regulations governing the seed control in these countries is given below. 



