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state shall be accompanied by a plainly written or printed guar- 

 antee, 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 Secretary of the State Board 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 secretary may prescribe. 



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

 the said secretary, together with the names and addresses of the 

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

 published annually in a bulletin by the New Hampshire College 

 Experiment Station, and biennially in the report of the State 

 Board of Agriculture. The said secretary shall also pubhsh from 

 time to time in the Quarterly Report of the State Board of Agri- 

 culture equitable standards of purity and vitality, together with 

 such information concerning agricultural seeds as may be of pub- 

 lic 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, 

 wTongly 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 percentage of 

 purity and vitality, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one 

 hundred dollars for the first offense, and not exceeding two hun- 

 dred dollars for each subsequent offense. 



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

 not apply to any person growing, selling, offering or exposing for 

 sale cereals and other agricultural seeds for food. 



Sect. 6. The Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture shall 

 diligently enforce the provisions of sections one and four of this 

 act, and in his discretion prosecute offenses against the same. 



The Object of the Law: 



The object of this law is in substance the same as that of our 

 pure food and fertilizer laws, namely, to have the buyer know 

 just what he is buying. It is intended to provide a means where- 



