1922.] 



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fine of ^1 and costs inflicted in both cases. The costs amounted 

 to o610 in the one case and £5 in the other. 



Amendments of Seeds Regulations. — In the light of the 

 experience gained since the Seeds Regulations, 1921, came into 

 operation on the 1st August, 1921, a number of minor amend- 

 ments were recently agreed to by the Ministry in consultation 

 with representatives of the various interests concerned. These 

 alterations have been incorporated in a new set of Regulations 

 entitled the " Seeds Regulations, 1922," which came into opera- 

 tion on the 10th August last, superseding the previous Regu- 

 lations. 



Apart from amendments of a purely drafting nature, the 

 alterations have the effect of : — 



(1) Specifically excluding lawn grass seeds from the requirements of the 



Regulations ; 



(2) Withdrawing the necessity for stating the percentage of pure 



germinating seed or "real value" in the case of grass or clover 

 seed ; 



(3) Allowing alsike clover and white clover, when grown together, to be 



treated, for the purposes of the Regulations, as one seed, provided 

 they are declared as ha\ ing been grown together ; 



(4) Requiring, for the purpose of testing, the sprouted grains of cereal 



see(1s not to be treated as an luipurity, that is to say they are not to 

 be picked out of the sample put up for the germination test ; 



(5) Reducing the authorised mininunu percentages of germination in the 



case of broccoli and cauliflower from 65 to 60; aud 



(6) Autliorisiug the sale of seed potatoes, the variety of which is less than 



the standard purity of 97 per cent., provided they are specifically 

 Hescrihed a>^ beitig of nn'xed \ a' ieties. 



Copies of the Seeds Act, 1920. and of the Seeds Regulations, 

 1922, may be obtained through anv bookseller, or direct from 

 IT.M. Stationery OfiS.ce, Imperial House, Kingsway, W.C., 

 price 3d. each. 



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