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shall be accompanied by a written or printed guarantee of its 

 percentage of purity, freedom from foreign matter; provided, 

 that mixtures may be sold as such when the percentages of the 

 various constitutents are stated. 



Sect. 2. Dealers may base their guarantees upon tests con- 

 ducted by themselves, their agents, or by the Director of the 

 Maine Agricultural Experiment Station; provided, that such 

 tests shall be made under such conditions as the said Director 

 may prescribe. 



Sect. 3. The results of all tests of seeds made by said Direc- 

 tor shall be published by him in the bulletins or reports of the 

 Experiment Station, together with the names of the person or 

 persons from whom the samples of seeds were obtained. The 

 said Director shall also publish equitable standards of purity 

 together with such other information concerning agricultural 

 seeds as may be of public benefit. 



Sect. 4. Any person or persons who shall sell, offer or 

 expose for sale or for distribution in this State agricultural seeds 

 without complying with the requirements of sections one and 

 two of this act, shall, on conviction in a court of competent 

 jurisdiction, be fined not to exceed one hundred dollars for the 

 first offense, and not to exceed two hundred dollars for each 

 subsequent offense. 



Sect. 5. Any person or persons who shall, with intention to 

 deceive, wrongly mark or label any package or bag containing 

 garden or vegetable seeds or any other agricultural seeds, not 

 including those of trees, shrubs, and ornamental plants, shall 

 be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction in a court of 

 competent jurisdiction shall be fined not to exceed one hundred 

 dollars for the first offense and not to exceed two hundred dol- 

 lars for each subsequent offense. 



Sect. 6. The provisions of this act shall not apply to any 

 person or persons growing or selling cereals and other seeds for 

 food. 



Sect. 7. Whenever the Director of the Maine Agricultural 

 Experiment Station becomes cognizant of the violation of any 

 of the provisions of this act, he shall report such violation to the 

 Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, and said Secretary shall 

 prosecute the party or parties thus reported. 



