2 MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. I9.I2. 



clover, white clover, field corn, Kaffir corn, meadow fescue, 

 flax, hungarian, millet, oats, orchard grass, rape, redtop, rye, 

 sorghum, timothy and wheat for seeding purposes. 



2. The brand. Each lot or package shall be plainly marked 

 with the name of the seed and its minimum percentage of 

 purity. 



3. Mixtures. Mixtures must be plainly marked with the 

 name of the seed and the percentage of purity. In case the 

 mixtures contain seeds not included in i these need not be 

 named, (e. g., a mixture consisting of half redtop, 90 per cent 

 pure, quarter Kentucky blue grass, 85 per cent pure and the 

 remainder seeds not named in the law, could be marked "Red- 

 top 45 per cent pure, Kentucky blue grass 21 per cent pure." 

 The statement of the remaining constituents may or may not be 

 named.) 



4. Adulteration. A seed is adulterated if its purity falls 

 below its guaranty or if it contains the seed of any poisonous 

 plant. 



5. Misbranding. A seed is misbranded if the package or 

 label bears any statement, design or device which is false or 

 disleading in any particular, or if it does not carry the state- 

 ments named in 2. 



6. Free analysis. Free analysis of seeds on sale in Maine 

 will be made of samples taken in accordance with directions 

 furnished by the Station. Samples not so taken may be refused 

 examination. Blanks with full directions will be furnished on 

 request. 



7. Paid analysis. As an accommodation to residents of 

 Maine samples of seeds not on sale in Maine will be examined 

 at cost, and the results will not be published. The cost of the 

 analysis of blue grass or redtop is $1.00 per sample and for 

 other seeds 50 cents. Remittance should accompany the sample. 



8. Written guaranty. No prosecution will lie against any 

 person handling agricultural seeds provided he obtains at the 

 time of purchase a written guaranty signed by the person resid- 

 ing in the United States, from whom the purchase was made, to 

 the effect that the seeds are not adulterated or misbranded with- 

 in the meaning of the Maine law regulating the sale of agricul- 

 tural seeds. After a person has been notified by the Director of 

 the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station that an article of 



