SlJKD INSPECTION. 3 



Chapter 66 of the Laws of 1905. 



An Act to Further Regttlate the Analysis of Pood and 

 Agricultural Seeds. 



Sec. I. The director of the Maine Agricultural Experiment 

 Station shall analyze, or cause to be analyzed, samples of 

 agricultural seeds sold or offered for sale under the provisions 

 of chapter thirty-nine of the revised statutes. He shall take in 

 person or by deputy, a sample, not exceeding four ounces in 

 weight, for said analysis, from any lot or package of agricul- 

 tural seeds which may be in the possession of any grower, 

 importer, agent or dealer in the state. 



Sec. 2. There shall be appropriated annually from the state 

 treasury the sum of one thousand dollars in favor of the Maine 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, and the same may be 

 expended in the analysis of food and agricultural seeds. So 

 much of said appropriation shall be paid by the treasurer of 

 state to the treasurer of said Experiment Station as the 

 director of said station may show by his bills has been expended 

 in performing the duties required by the acts regulating the 

 sale and analysis of food and the sale of agricultural seeds. 

 Such payment shall be made quarterly upon the order of the 

 governor and council, who shall draw a warrant for that 

 purpose. 



Sec. 3. This act shall take effect when approved. 

 [Approved March 15, 1905.] 



TESTING SEEDS AT HOME. 

 It is important to the user of seeds not only to know their 

 percentage of purity and what kind of weeds they carry, but to 

 also know something of their vitality. In the case of seeds there 

 are at least three ways whereby the user may be injured. A 

 seed which carries foreign matter of any kind, in any consider- 

 able amount, is correspondingly lowered in value. But there is 

 another reason which is more important than the money consid- 

 eration, and that is that the weed seeds which the seeds contain 

 may be pernicious. For example, — clover seed carries fre- 

 quently plantain seed. If this plantain seed is the door-yard 



