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to the advisability of allowing the exportation of certain 

 kinds of vegetable or field seeds with or without restriction. 

 The Seed Reporting Service of the Bureau of Markets has 

 been able to supply the information needed to pass upon the 

 necessity of importing certain kinds of seed or of exporting 

 others, or upon the importance of the conservation of cer- 

 tain kinds. of seeds and of the urgency for the stimulation 

 of their production. Without such a well-organized agency, 

 the Government would not have been able to pass intelligent 

 judgment upon or to make proper recommendations con- 

 cerning these questions. 



