RESULTS OF SEED TESTS 



Made July 1, 1951, to June 30, 1952 



This report contains the results of the seed inspection work for the 

 State Department of Agriculture of 690 official samples collected through- 

 out the state during the period from July 1, 1951, to June 30, 1952, by Mr. 

 George H. Laramie, Seed Control Supervisor, and Mr. Harold Ayer, In- 

 spector. In addition to these official samples, 1583 private samples were 

 analyzed, making a total of 2273 samples inspected. 



Wholesalers are listed in alphabetical order except when samples are 

 presumed to have been carried over, in which case they are listed alphabet- 

 ically by dealers. The New Hampshire seed law requires that both agri- 

 cultural and vegetables seeds must be labeled with the calendar month and 

 year when last tested for germination, and requires that this -germination 

 test shall have been completed within nine months of being offered for 

 sale. In the following tables, if the date of test was within the prescribed 

 nine months, the sample is marked satisfactory, "S" in this respect; if no 

 date was given, the word "None" appears indicating a violation; if the date 

 was a violation of the law because the test was not made within nine 

 months, the date given on the tag or label appears in that column. 



The first part of the report deals with 187 samples of agricultural seed 

 tested for purity, germination and noxious weed content. There is a toler- 

 ance or allowable variation from the guarantee for both purity and germi- 

 nation, in accordance with the Rules for Seed Testing adopted by the 

 Association of Official Seed Analysts, so that, for instance a sample of tim- 

 othy guaranteed 99.20 for purity and 85% for germination could test as 

 low as 98.25% for purity and 77% for germination and be "satisfactory." 

 If a sample when tested for purity falls within the allowable variation, it 

 is marked "S" (satisfactory); if below the allowable variation, and therefore 

 a violation, the actual figure found for purity is given. The same is true 

 for germination in the case of agricultural seeds. 



The second part of the report applies to 503 samples of vegetable seeds 

 which were tested for germination only. The New Hampshire seed law 

 requires that unless each packet or other container is plainly marked "Be- 

 low Standard" together with the percentage of germination, vegetable seeds 

 must test up to the prescribed standard for that kind of seed, and that there 

 is no tolerance from the adopted standards. In the column headed "Found" 

 if the same was up to standard, an "S" (satisfactory) appears. The excep- 

 tion to this is in the case of a given sample being marked with a guarantee, 

 which is not required if vegetable seed is up to standard; then, if the seed 

 is found to be below the regular tolerance from that guaranteed figure, the 

 figure found upon test followed by "f " is listed as "mislabeled" even though 

 it might in some cases be up to standard. 



The New Hampshire seed law and the rules and regulations there- 

 under, including the germination standards for vegetable seed, follow: 



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