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AMENDED TEXT OF NEW HAMPSHIRE SEED LAW. 



STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND NINE. 



HOUSE BILL No. 396 



AN ACT 



To Regulate the Sale of Agricultural Seeds. 



Be it enacted hij the Senate and House of Representatives in Gen- 

 eral Court convened: 



Section 1. Every lot of agricultural seeds, including seeds 

 of cereals, grasses, forage plants, vegetables, garden plants, and 

 white pine trees, but not including those of other trees, shrubs, 

 and ornamental plants, which is sold, offered, or exposed for sale 

 for seed in bulk or package of one pound or more, within this 

 state, shall be accompanied by a plainly written or printed 

 guarantee, stating first its percentage of purity from foreign 

 seeds and other matter, and second, its percentage of vitality. 



Sect. 2. Sellers or dealers in seeds may base their guarantees 

 upon tests or analyses conducted by themselves, their agents, or 

 by the commissioner of agriculture or his agents, provided that 

 such tests or analyses shall be made in such a manner and under 

 such conditions as the said commissioner may prescribe. 



Sect. 3. The results of all tests or analyses of seeds made by 

 the said commissioner, together with the names and addresses 

 of the persons from whom the samples of seed were obtained, 

 shall be published in reports of bulletins by the commissioner 

 of agriculture or the New Hampshire College experiment station, 

 as the governor and council may determine. The report may 

 contain equitable standards of purity and vitality, together with 

 such information concerning agricultural seeds as may be of 

 public benefit. 



Sect. 4. "Whoever sells, offers or exposes for sale or for dis- 

 tribution, within this state, any agricultural seeds heretofore 

 named in this act, without complying with the requirements of 

 sections one and two, or whoever, with intention to deceive, 

 wrongly marks or labels any lot of agricultural seeds, including 

 the seeds of cereals, grasses, forage plants, vegetables, garden 

 plants, and white pine trees, but not including those of other 

 trees, shrubs and ornamental plants, as pertains to .their per- 

 centage of purity and vitality, shall be punished by a fine not 

 exceeding one hundred dollars for the first offense, and not ex- 

 ceeding two hundred dollars for each subsequent offense. 



Sect. 5. The provisions of the four preceding sections shall 

 not appl}^ to any person growing, selling, offering or exposing 

 for sale cereals and other agricultural seeds for food. 



Sect. 6. The commissioner of agriculture shall diligently 

 enforce the provisions of sections one and four of this act, and in 

 his discretion prosecute offenses against the same 



