THE TEXT OF THE LAW 



STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIKE. 



IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED 

 AND NINE. 



HOUSE BILL NO. 396. 



AN ACT 



To Eegulate the Sale of Agricultural Seeds. 



Be it enacted by 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 secretary of the State Board of Agriculture or his agents, pro- 

 vided 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 publish 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, wrongly marks 

 or labels any lot of agricultural seeds, including the seeds of 



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