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be taken from a parcel, lot or number of parcels which shall not be less 

 than five per cent of the whole lot inspected and shall be thoroughly 

 mixed and divided into two samples and placed in glass or metal vessels 

 carefully sealed and a label placed on each, stating the name or brand 

 of the feeding-stuff, agricultural seeds or material sampled, the name of 

 the party from whose stock the sample is drawn, and the date and place 

 of taking such sample, and said label shall be signed by the said State 

 Food and Dairy Commissioner, or his authorized agent; or said sample 

 may be taken in the presence of two disinterested witnesses. One of said 

 duplicate samples shall be left on the premises of the party whose stock 

 was sampled and the other retained by the State Food and Dairy Com- 

 missioner, for analysis and comparison with the certified statements re- 

 quired by sections one (1) and four (4) of this act. The result of the 

 analysis of the sample, together with additional information, shall be 

 published from time to time in bulletins issued by the State Food and 

 Dairy Commissioner upon approval of the Executive Council. 



Sec. 7. Any person purchasing any concentrated commercial feeding- 

 stuffs or agricultural seeds in this State, for his own use, may submit fair 

 samples of said feeding-stuffs or seeds to the State Food and Dairy Com- 

 misioner, who, upon receipt of an analysis fee of fifty cents (50c) for 

 each sample of agricultural seeds and one dollar for each sample of con- 

 centrated commercial feeding-stuff, shall cause an analysis of the same to 

 be made. 



Sec. 8. No person shall sell in ground form, wheat or rye screenings 

 containing cockle or other poisonous or deleterious substances. 



Sec. 9. The term, agricultural seeds, as used in this act, shall include 

 the seeds of the red clover, white clover, alsike clover, alfalfa, Kentucky 

 blue-grass, timothy, brcme grass, orchard grass, red top, meadow fescue, 

 oat grass, rye grass, and other grasses and forage plants, flax, rape and 

 cereals. 



Sec. 10. No person shall sell, offer, or expose for sale, or distribution, 

 in this State, for the purpose of seeding, any of the -agricultural seeds as 

 defined in section nine (9) of this act, unless the said seeds are free 

 from the seeds of the following weeds: Wild mustard or charlock (Bras- 

 sica sinapistrum), quacli grass (Agropyron repens), Canada thistle (Cni- 

 cus arvensis), wild oats (Avena fatua), clover and alfalfa dodder (Cus- 

 cuta epithymum), field dodder (Cuscuta arvensis), and corn cockle 

 (Lychnic githago). 



Sec. 11. The seeds of the following weeds shall be considered as im- 

 purities in the agricultural seeds, as defined in section nine (9) of this 

 act, sold, offered, or exposed for sale, within the State for the purpose 

 of seeding: White cockle (Lychnis vespertina), nightflowering catchfly 

 (Silene noctifiora), curled dock (Rumex crispus), smooth dock (Rumex 

 altissimus), sheep-sorrel (Rumex acetosella), yellow trefoil (Medicago 

 lupulina), burr clover (Medicago denticulata), sweet clover (Melilotus 

 alba and officinalis), black mustard (Brassica nigra), plantain, buck- 

 horn (Plantago lanceolata), bracted plantain (Plantago aristata), bind- 

 weed (Convolvulus sepium), smooth crab-grass (Panicum glabrum), com- 

 mon chickweed (Stellaria media). When such impurities or any of them 



