SEED INSPECTION 



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Results of Inspection and (>ermination of Vegetable Seeds 

 Sections 261 B2 and 261 C. 



Each separate container of Vejxelable Seeds must be labeled to indicate 

 plainly the kind of seed and variety and the name and address of the person who 

 labeled such seed or who sells, offers, or exposes it for sale. For seeds that 

 germinate less than the Massachusetts Standard, the label must also indicate 

 the percentage of germination exclusive of hard seeds, percentage of hard seeds 

 if present, calendar month and year the test w^as completed, and the words 

 "Below Standard" in not less than 8-point type. Date of test shall not be more 

 than nine months old, exclusive of the month in which the test was completed. 

 Seed that has a false or misleading label may not be sold or offered for sale. 



Seven hundred and twenty-nine samples of vegetable seeds were received 

 and tested in the laboratory; however. Table 3 includes only those samples that 

 were found to be mislabeled with regard to requirements of law. 



The wholesaler's name, in all instances, and the germination for those 

 samples of seed found below standard in germination are in boldface type. In 

 samples for which the found germination is not in boldface, the germination is 

 above standard but below germination stated. 



Table 3 



Wholesale Distributor, Variety of Seed 

 Lab. Kind of and Lot Number, Dealer When Other 

 No. Seed Than Wholesale Distributor, and 



Place Collected 



Germination 



Given 



Found 



-Mass. 



Date % Month Stand- 



of Test of Test ard 



796 



Beans 



S-281 Dandelion 



110 



Lettuce 



1246 F Squash 

 Pepper 



1232 



1069 

 1070 



Chicory 

 Onion 



Associated Seed Growers, Inc., 



Milfcrd, Conn. 

 Pierce Hardware Co., Taunton 



Top Crop, No. 16214 80 



Joseph Breck & Sens, Inc., Boston, 

 Mass. 



Westboro State Hospital, Westboro 

 Thick Leaf, No. 5916 50 



W. Atlee Burpee Co., Philadelphia, 

 Penn. 



Wm. H. Casey Store, Milford 



Broad Leaved Batavian, No. 5027 80 



C. P. Coburn Co., Lowell 



Southern Giant Curled 80 



E. J. Mahoney, Bradford 



Long Smooth Hollow Crown 65 



Comstock, Ferre & Co., Wethersfield, 

 Conn. 



Essex County Co-op. Farming .'\ssoc., 

 Topsfield 

 Great Lakes 87 



Arthur R. Cone, Inc.. Buffalo, N. Y. 



Wallace Grain Co., Clinton 



Butternut 85 



Budd D. Hawkins, Reading^, Vermont 



Mighori's. Haverhill 



Green (*) 55 



D. Landreth Seed Co., Philadelphia, Penn. 



Chace Grain Co., No. Westport 



Cicoria Catalogna 



White Portugal 70 



10 1953 69 4 1954 75 



1 1954 25 3/1954 45 



12/1953 67 5/1954 70 



12/1953 69 6/1954 75 



2/1954 50 6/1954 60 



12/1953 65 3/1954 80 



2 1954 68 5/1954 75 

 1/1954 85 6/1954 55 



11 5 1954 65 

 ** 1954 27 5/1954 70 



(*) Variety required. Green not a variety. 

 (.**) Required information not given. 



