ig N. h. experiment station [Bulletin 193 



Sect. 2. Sellers or dealers in seeds may base their guarantees 

 upon tests or analyses conducted by themselves, their agents, or by 

 the commissioner 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 commissioner may prescribe. 



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

 the said commissioner, together with the names and addresses of 

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

 published in reports of bulletins by the commissioner of agriculture 

 or the New Hampshire College experiment station, as the governor 

 and council may determine. The report may contain equitable 

 standards of purity and vitality together with such information 

 concerning agricultural seeds as may be of public benefit. 



Sect. 4 Whoever sells, offers or exposes for sale or for distri- 

 bution, 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 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 hundred 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 commissioner of agriculture shall diligently en- 

 force the provisions of sections one and four of this act, and in his 

 discretion prosecute offenses against the same. 



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LABELING. 



The law does not apply to the common flve-and ten-cent packages 

 of garden and flower seeds. Only seeds sold in bulk or in packages 

 of one pound or more are subject to the provisions of the law and 

 are required to be accompanied by a guarantee stating their per- 

 centage of purity and vitality. 



The guarantee or label may be of any form desired by the seller 

 of the seeds, as a tag, sticker or direct brand upon the container. 

 It must, however, be plainly written or printed, and placed dis- 

 tinctly visable to the purchaser. Each dealer will provide his own 

 labels. 



TAKING OF SAMPLES. 



To secure a fair average sample of a lot or bulk, take small 

 quantities from all of the bags or from different parts of any parti 

 cular bulk. Mix thoroughly and take out the sample to be in- 

 spected. When the seeds are in bags or large bins, the use of a 



