August, 1919] RESULTS OF SEED TESTS, 1919. 17 



"OUR SEEDS ARE GUARANTEED FOR PURITY AND 



GERMINATION" 



"WE STAND BEHIND OUR SEED GUARANTEES" 



"GOOD SEEDS BRING GOOD CROPS" 



"NO OLD SEEDS FOR SALE HERE" 



"OUR SEEDS ARE TESTED, TRIED AND TRUE" 



"WE SELL ONLY TESTED SEEDS" 



The use of good seeds is both a commercial and educational mat- 

 ter. In the Tatter the seed dealers themselves can be a strong 

 factor by cooperating with the State Department of Agriculture 

 and the Seed Testing Laboratory at the State College. If purity 

 or germination tests are desired on a questionable lot of seed, the 

 seed testing laboratory stands ready and willing to make tests to the 

 limit of its capacity. The laboratory, however, cannot handle an 

 unlimited number of samples for a large number of dealers in the 

 limited time of two or three weeks. Send the samples in early 

 and do not wait until the laboratory is crowded with the work of 

 testing the official samples, or until the inspector comes and finds 

 seeds being sold without a guarantee. This is what one dealer did 

 this spring, and then sent us a lot of 100 samples, but unfortunately 

 we were unable to accommodate him. 



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 by the Senate and House of Representatives in Gen- 

 eral Court convened : 



Section. 1. Every lot of argicultural seeds, including seeds of 

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

 pine trees, but not including those of other trees, shrubs, and orna- 

 mental 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. 



