ANNOUNCEMENT 



The Seed Testing Laboratory will allow ten units of work free of charge, during 

 any calendar year, to any resident firm or citizen of Massachusetts. Work in excess 

 of ten units and all work for non-residents will be charged for according to existing 

 schedule. (See Circular, "How the Massachusetts Seed Law Operates," Massa- 

 chusetts Agricultural Experiment Station Seed Inspection vService, October, 1927.) 



Units are rated as follows : ' Units 



Purity analysis (red clover, timothy, etc.) 1 



Purity analysis (bluegrass, orchard grass, etc.) 2 



Purity analysis of a mixture of seeds (depending upon the 



number of kinds in the mixture) 4 - 10 



Examination for noxious weeds (4 oz. or fraction thereof) 



of samples not mixtures 1 



Examination for noxious weeds (4 oz. or fraction thereof) 



of mixtures 4-10 



Identification of seed or plant 1 



Cleaning tobacco seed (4 oz. or fraction thereof) 2 



Germination tests (4 x 100 seeds, of any seed not chaffy or 



requiring a purity test) 1 



Germination tests (soil, 2 x 100 seeds) 1 



Germination tests (chaffy grasses or seeds requiring purity 



analysis) 2-4 



