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are concerned. When sufficient public sentiment 

 has been aroused in this problem to create a 

 demand for guaranteed seed, seedsmen will be 

 found ready to meet the demand as a simple 

 business proposition. It has always seemed to the 

 writer that this situation might be very success- 

 fully met by some slight modifications of the 

 European seed control plan now so successfully 

 practiced in most countries of Europe. In brief 

 this plan is as follows: Various seed-control sta- 

 tions have been established by the government 

 whose business it is to test and examine samples 

 of seed voluntarily offered for test by the seed trade 

 as well as by farmers and gardeners. Seedsmen 

 are at perfect liberty to offer their seed for sale with- 

 out test if they so desire, but it must be sold upon 

 its merits without guarantee. If submitted to the 

 station the test is made and the seedsmen may then 

 guarantee the per cent purity and vitality for each 

 and every package sold. If for any reason the pur- 

 chaser doubts the truth of the guarantee he may 

 take a sample according to prescribed methods, send 

 it back to the station, where it is again examined 

 for a nominal sum, and if it fails to come up to the 

 seedsman's guarantee prosecution is at once begun. 

 The value of the whole plan lies in the fact that 

 neither the seedsman nor the farmer is compelled 

 to have the test made, but public sentiment has been 

 developed to such a state that the seedsman who 

 fails to submit samples for test in order that his 

 seed may be guaranteed finds it is impossible to sell 

 the same to the European farmers and gardeners. 

 The person who desires to purchase inferior seed at 

 a low price should have the right to do so, while 

 the person who desires to purchase seed of high 



