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. 



Units are rated as follows: 



Purity analysis (red clover, timothy, etc.) 



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 ■ ■ ■ ' 



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



. . . .4-10 



mixtures 



Identification of seed or plant 



Cleaning tobacco seed (4 oz. or fraction thereof) 



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



requiring a purity test) 



Germination tests (soil, 2 x 100 seeds) 



Germination tests (chaffy grasses or seeds requiring purity 



analysis) 



Fees for work in excess of the ten free units allowed are as follows: 



Germination test except for grasses other than timothy, but including 



clovers and alfalfa — thirty cents each. 

 Germination tests of grasses except timothy — fifty cents each. 

 Purity analyses of cereals — fifty cents each. 

 Purity analyses of timothy, and all other kinds of crop seeds, except 



grasses — seventy-five cents each. 

 Purity analyses of grasses and of all mixtures of not more than two kinds 



of agricultural seeds — one dollar each. 

 Purity analyses of special mixtures, including lawn grasses and pasture 



mixtures, a charge sufficient to cover the actual cost of working the 



sample, the amount of such fee depending entirely upon the character 



of the sample submitted for test, - minimum charge, one dollar and 



twenty-five cents. 

 In no case will the final report be rendered until all fees are paid. 



