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THE TEXT OF THE LAW 



STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



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



HOUSE BILL . NO. 396. 



AN ACT 



To Regulate the Sale of Agricultural Seeds. 



Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives w 

 General Court convened: 



Section 1. Every lot of agricultural seeds, including seeds 

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

 and Avhite pine trees, but not including those of other trees, 

 shrubs, and ornamental plants, which is sold, offered, or ex- 

 posed for sale for seed in bulk or package of one pound or 

 more, within this state, shall be accompanied by a plainly writ- 

 ten or printed guarantee, stating first its percentage of purity 

 from foreign seeds and other matter, and second, its percent- 

 age of vitality. 



Sect. 2. Sellers or dealers in seeds may base their guar- 

 antees 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 Col- 

 lege Experiment Station, and biennially in the report of the 

 State Board of Agriculture. The said secretary shall also pub- 

 lish from time to time in the quarterly report of the State Board 

 of Agriculture equitable standards of purity and vitality, to- 

 gether 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 Avitli the requirements of 

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

 wrongly marks or labels any lot of agricultural seeds, including 



