98 FOEAGE CKOPS IN DENMARK 



(a complete copy of the inscription on 



label). 



After the sampling was finished each bag of the consignment 

 was closed with my official seal and with the guarantee seal of the 

 firm. The 1 kg. sample sealed with my seal I have this day sent 

 to the Government Root Seed Commissioner together with a copy 

 of this declaration, the remaining two copies together with the four 

 smaller samples I have handed to the exporters, Messrs 



(Signed) 



Name of Official Sampler. 

 Date 



The exporting firm will, as stated, attach their own seal to 

 all the bags as a proof that they guarantee the genuineness as 

 to variety and strain of the seed according to the description 

 on the label in each bag. This shall apply to all seed of mangels, 

 swedes, turnips and carrots sold by the firms to foreign cus- 

 tomers, and shall be a guarantee that the seed is from strains 

 awarded a Class I. certificate by the Comparative ^Cultivations 

 as described in the second chapter, carried out at the Experi- 

 mental Stations of the State. And this guarantee, making the 

 exporter liable under the Danish Law on Purchase, of 6th April, 

 1906, shall be accepted, in the form stated above, as a con- 

 dition of sale of all seed sold with the seal of the exporter. 



The German Ministry of Agriculture is so fully alive to the 

 importance of having the fields sown with good seed, and it 

 appreciates the value of the guarantee of genuineness described 

 above to such an extent that it has prevailed on the Com- 

 missioner for Import and Export to permit the import of root 

 seed from Denmark only provided it has been bought under 

 this guarantee. 



The guarantee of genuineness which at present is in use 

 only in the trade in root seed will during 1920 be extended also 

 to the seed of grasses and the legurmnosae of the rotation grass 

 field. It should, however, be understood that, in addition to 

 the Guarantee of Genuineness, the seed of roots is also sold, 

 like seed of grasses, with a guarantee of purity, germination 

 and other characters as determined by the analysis of the Seed 

 Testing Station of the State. 



