96 FORAGE CROPS IN DENMARK 



Dealers in Root Seed by a resolution in 1912, was so great that 

 the Society decided the very next year to extend the guarantee 

 also to customers abroad, to sell seed for export under seal 

 with the same guarantee of genuineness. To make this effective 

 required some co-operation with officials, which was readily 

 given. The working of the scheme, as far as the export trade 

 in root seed from Denmark is concerned, is described by 

 circulars sent by the exporting firms to their customers abroad 

 and drawn up in concert with Helweg : 



When a consignment of seed is ready for export a label giving 

 the name of the variety and of the strain and the number of the con- 

 signment is placed in each bag. The seller then calls in the Royal 

 Danish Weigher (a sworn official), or any other person authorised 

 to draw samples, to draw a sample of 1 kg. (21 Ib.) of the consignment 

 according to the Regulations for Sampling of Seed (see below), this 

 sample to be used to test the genuineness of the consignment. Having 

 ascertained that the labels in all the bags are identical the sampler 

 will seal all the bags with his official lead seal at the same time like- 

 wise sealing the sample bag containing the 1 kg. sample. The sample 

 bag he will send to the Danish Government Root Seed Commissioner, 

 8, Akasiavej, Copenhagen V., together with a declaration as men- 

 tioned below. 



In the spring the Government Commissioner will sow, in two 

 experimental fields, all the samples of seeds received from the various 

 samplers. If complaints should be raised during the following 

 autumn respecting a consignment of seed exported in the spring an 

 inspection of the roots grown in the experimental fields from the 

 official sample of that consignment will show, in such a manner that 

 evidence on the point can be given in a Court of Law, whether the 

 seed in question had been correctly named or whether it was inferior 

 to genuine seed of the strain named on the label, to such an extent 

 that the purchaser has a just claim to compensation. 



These claims from customers should be sent by registered letter 

 to the Government Commissioner, 8, Akasiavej, Copenhagen V., 

 in time to be delivered to him before October 15th. A certified copy 

 of the seller's invoice must be sent with the claim. 



When the Commissioner has received a complaint from a buyer 

 he will inspect the roots in the experimental fields grown from the 

 sample drawn from the consignment in question. If he thinks there 

 is any reason for complaints he will send to both buyer and seller 

 his estimate of the compensation per kg. seeds which should 

 be paid. The amount of compensation should, if possible, be settled 

 between seller and buyer direct or failing this it should be settled 

 by arbitration. Should the parties fail to agree to have the matter 



