AGRICULTURAL SEEDS. 



Kind of Seeds Coming Under the Lazv. The law applies to 

 every lot of seeds, containing one pound or more, of cereals, 

 grasses, forage plants, vegetable and garden plants, but does 

 not apply to sweet corn, trees, shrubs and ornamental plants. 



The Guarantee. Every lot sold, offered or exposed for sale 

 must be accompanied by a written or printed guaranty of the 

 percentage of purity. . , • 



Chapter 39, Revised Statutes. 



Sec. 27. Every lot of seeds of agricultural plants, whether in bulk 

 or in package, containing one pound or more, and including the seeds 

 of cereals, except sweet corn, grasses, forage plants, vegetables and 

 garden plants but not including those of trees, shrubs and ornamental 

 plants, which is sold, offered or exposed for sale for seed by any person 

 in the state shall be accompanied b}^ a written or printed guaranty of 

 its percentage of purity and freedom from foreign matter ; provided, 

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

 constituents are stated. 



Sec 28. Dealers may base their guaranties upon tests conducted 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. 



Sec 29. The results of all tests of seeds made by said director shall 

 be published by him in the bulletins or reports of the experiment sta- 

 tion, together with the names of the 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. 



* Sec. 30. Whoever sells, offers or exposes for sale or for distribu- 

 tion, in the state, any agricultural seeds without complying with the 

 requirements of sections twenty-seven and twenty-eight, or whoever, 

 "wrongly marks or labels anj^ package or bag containing garden or vege- 

 table seeds or any other agricultural seeds, not including those of trees, 

 shrubs and ornamental plants, 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. Municipal and police courts and 

 trial justices are hereby vested with original jurisdiction concurrent 

 with the supreme judicial and superior courts, to try, and, upon convic- 

 tion, to punish, for offenses against the provisions of this act. 



