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Mr. Dorph-Petersen stated that the matter should be referred to 

 a committee, and asked if "grade" means the intrinsic value. Asked further 

 why the figure stating the percentage of weight of weed-seeds was just 

 multiplied with 3. 



Professor" Dr. A. Voigt asked Mr. Clark what he meant hy "grade", 



Mr. Clark: 



"All seed of red clover, timothy and alsike must be sold under 1st, 2nd, 

 3rd grade and "rejected". This is established by a committee. 



Tentative Draft of Standard Grades Eed Clover Seeds — Canadian. 

 (Prepared to conforta to the British seed control regulations. Statement of percentages, 



are only suggestive.) 



Extra No. 1., Export Eed Clover seed shall be mature, sound, plump, of good colour 

 dry and sweet, well cleaned and graded, free from the noxious weed seeds prescribed by 

 the British Ministry of Agriculture and contain not less than 99% pure and 95% 

 germinahle seeds. 



No. 1. Export Red Clover seed shall be mature, sound, plump, of good colour, dry 

 and sweet, well cleaned and graded, free from dodder, contaii not less than 98 "/o pure red 

 clover seed, not more than one tenth of one per cent by number of the other noxious weed 

 seeds prescribed by the British Ministry of Agriculture, and not less than 93% germinahle seed. 



No. 2. Export Eed Clover seed shall be reasonably mature, sound, well cleaned, of 

 medium colour, dry and sweet, free from dodder, contain not less than 92 %-pure red clover 

 Slid 97% pure red clover, alsike, timothy, and other useful seeds, not more than one- 

 fifth of one per cent by number of the other noxious weed seeds prescribed by the British 

 Ministry of Agriculture, and not Igss than 90% germinahle seeds, 



No. 3. Export Red Clover seed shall be reasonably mature, sound, cleaned, dry and 

 sweet, contain not less than 87 % pure red clover and 95 % pure red clover, alsike, timothy, 

 and other useful seeds, free from dodder, not more than one half of one per cent by number 

 of the other noxious weed seeds prescribed by the" British Ministry of Agriculture, and 

 not less than 85% germinahle seeds. 



"Eed Clover Mixture" shall be the designation of any mixture in which red clover 

 seed predominates, and any certificate of grade issued therefore shall include a statement 

 of the kinds and the per c6nt of each kind of clover and grass seeds which compose more 

 than 5 % of the mixture, and shall in all other respects conform to the defined .standards 

 of quality for No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3 grades provided for "Export Red Clover Seed". 



Exporters- will conform to any definition of noxious seed passed by 

 this congress if only something can be passed". 



Mr. Dorph-Petersen: 



"The terms "sound", "sweet" &c. must be defined accurately. What 

 are they reduced to figures? The Danish State Seed Testing Station deals 

 only with such", 



Mr. J, Widen, Directeur de la station de chimie agricole et d'essais 

 de semences, Orebro, Suede, 



agreed with Mr. Bruijning that it is ,,Ich meine, wie Direktor Bruij- 



important to appoint a committee to ning, es ware gut, einen Einheits- 

 discuss "grade". However we were begriff fiir den Wert des Samens ein- 

 not yet sufficiently advanced to de- zufiihren. Wir sind nur nicht so weit 

 cide on the numerical insignia for gekommen, daB wir den Wert in einer 

 the terms used in defining "grade". Zahl festlegen kOnnen. Wenn man 



