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including the seeds of cereals, except sweet corn, g^rasses, 

 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 by 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 per- 

 centages of the various constituents are stated. 



Sec. 28. 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. 



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 station, 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 

 distribution, in the state, any agricultural seeds without com- 

 plying with the requirements of sections twenty-seven and 

 twenty-eight, or whoever, with intention to deceive, wrongly 

 marks or labels 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 punished 

 by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars for the first offense 

 and not exceeding two hundred dollars for each subsequent 

 offense. 



Sec. 31. The provisions of the four preceding sections shall 

 not apply to any person growing or selling cereals and other 

 seeds for food. 



*Sec. 33. Whenever the said director becomes cognizant of 

 any violation of the preceding sections, he shall report such 

 violation to the commissioner of agriculture, and said com- 

 missioner shall prosecute the party or parties thus reported. 



The matter not relevant to seeds is omitted. 



