2 Maine Agricultural Experiment Station. 1918. 



COMMERCIAL AGRICULTURAL SEEDS, 191 7. 



The Chief Requirements of the Law. 



The following are the chief points of the law and the rule< 

 and regulations for carrying out the law regulating the sale of 

 agricultural seeds which, as directed by the law, the Commis- 

 sioner of Agriculture, has made. 



1. Kind of seeds coining under the latv. The law applies 

 to the sale, distribution, transportation, or the offering or expos- 

 ing for sale, distribution, or transportation of the seeds of alfalfa, 

 barley, Canadian blue grass. Kentucky blue grass, brome grass 

 buckwheat, alsike clover, crimson clover, red clover, medium 

 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 marke 

 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 1 these need not be 

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

 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 constitutents may or may not b 

 named. ) 



4. Adulteration. A seed is adulterated if its purity fall; 

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

 plant. 



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

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

 misleading 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 Mam 

 will be made of samples taken in accordance with direction 

 furnished by the Commissioner of Agriculture. Sample not 

 taken may be refused examination. Blanks with full direction 

 will be furnished on request. 



7. Paid analysis. As an accommodation to residents c 

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



