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affidavit to statements that showed that he acted in good faith 

 in this matter and the case was not prosecuted. 



In the case of several lots of alsike clover the wrong guaranty 

 was placed upon the seeds owing to a clerical error in the per- 

 centage of purity which was placed upon the invoice of the 

 Chicago firm who shipped the goods into the State. 



The State has great reason to congratulate itself upon the 

 wonderful improvement that there has been not only in the 

 agreement of samples with the guaranty over the past but what 

 is still more important, upon the marked improvement in the 

 quality of seeds which are on sale. ^Vhile there are still 

 dealers, particularly in the small country towns, that demand 

 of the jobber low priced and consequently low grade seed, by 

 far the major portion of the dealers, retail as well as wholesale, 

 are realizing the importance of handling high grade seeds. The 

 dealers are the more to be commended in that this has not come 

 about largely through the demand of the farmers themselves, for 

 there are still far too many farmers who are looking to saving 

 a cent or two a pound in the seed which they purchase. The 

 dealers desire as a class not only to keep well within the law 

 but prefer to sell high grade goods when they can persuade 

 their customers to pay the price. In this connection it is inter- 

 esting and instructive to note that while o/er 250 samples of 

 seeds were sent to the Station in 1909 by dealers not a single 

 sample was received from a practical farmer. Is the farmer 

 requesting that the dealer show him the results of the Station 

 analysis before he will purchase or is he indifferent to the kind 

 of seed he buys? 



