The retailer is then required to attach sufficient 
tags to cover the net weight before offering 
seed for sale. 
Ruling No. 3. Hybrid Corn may be so labeled 
only when such seed represents the first gen- 
eration of a cross between strains of different 
parentage and involving inbred lines of corn 
and/or their combinations. 
Ruling No. 5. Effective January 1, 1939. White 
blossom sweet clover seed containing more than 
5% of mottled seeds must not be labeled white 
blossom sweet clover. Such seed may be labeled 
sweet clover. 
eeepc eee es 
IOWA 
Code of 1941 
INFORMATION REQUIRED ON ANALY- 
SIS TAGS OR CONTAINER 
(A) Agricultural Seeds (Unmixed) Every 
lot. 
(1) Name of: 
(a) Kind, or 
(b) Kind and variety, or 
(c) Kind and type. 
(2) Lot number or other lot identification. 
(3) Percentage of pure seed. 
(4) Percentage of inert matter. 
(5) Percentage of weed seeds. 
excess of 3%. 
(6) Percentage of other agricultural seeds. 
(7) Percentage of: 
(a) Germination, exclusive of hard seed. 
(b) Hard seed. 
(c) Month and year tested. Test shall 
have been completed within a 9 month 
period, exclusive of month in which 
test was made. 
Following (a) and (b) Total Germination and 
Hard Seed may be given, if desired. 
(8) Origin of alfalfa and red clover, if un- 
known it must be so stated. 
(9) Warning as to danger if seed has been 
treated with a compound poisonous to man 
or farm animal. 
(10) Name and address of person who labeled, 
sells, offers or exposes seed for sale. 
(11) Name and number per ounce of each sec- 
ondary noxious weed in groups (B1), (B2) 
and (B3) and per pound in group (4) sin- 
gly or collectively in excess of: 
(a) 5 per ounce. 
(See page 106, group B.) 
(b) 3 per ounce. 
(c) One per ounce. 
(d) 5 per pound. 
Prohibited if in 
(B) Mixed Agricultural Seed. Every lot. , 
Same as unmixed seed, except that the infor- 
mation required under items 1, 3 and 7 shall 
be given, for each agricultural seed component 
present in excess of 5%, in order of its pre- 
ponderance. 
(C) Vegetable Seeds Not Included Under 
Law. 
(D) Seed sold by the grower on his farm 
are exempt from detailed labeling 
provisions if a placard is displayed or 
a written or printed statement sup- 
plied purchaser giving 
(1) Percentage of germination. 
(2) Month and year of test. 
(3) Kind and number per ounce or pound of 
, all secondary noxious weeds present. 
(4) A guarantee that no primary noxious 
weeds are present. 
(E) Information Required on labels of 
inoculants for leguminous plants. 
(1) ne of plants for which inoculant is to be 
used. 
(2) Amount of seed content will inoculate. 
(3) Expiry date of inoculant. 
(4) Name and address of manufacturer or 
laboratory of origin or of vendor if he 
accepts responsibility for accuracy of the 
information. : 
(F) Seed Potatoes bearing blue certifica- 
tion label shall be 
(1) Certified and bear label with 
the word 
CERTIFIED thereon. 
(2) Certified by a constituted state authority 
or state organization recognized by the 
Iowa secretary of agriculture. 
(G) Prohibits the sale, offering or expos- 
ing for sale of seed if, 
(1) Contains primary noxious weed seeds, sub- 
_ ject to tolerances, 
(2) Contains in excess of 3% of weed seeds. 
(3) Screenings of agricultural seed containing 
less than 25% viable seed not marked 
“NOT FOR PLANTING PURPOSES,” 
provided the claimant of said seed having 
been given the opportunity to apply to 
said court for the release of said seed. 
NOXIOUS WEEDS 
PRIMARY NOXIOUS WEEDS prohibited sub- 
ject to tolerances given in the rules and regu- 
lations. 
Quackgrass—Agropyron repens. 
Canada thistle—Cirsium arvense. 
Perennial sow thistie—sonchus arvensis. 
European morning glory—Convolvulus arvensis. 
Horse Nettle—Solanum carolineénse. 
Leafy spurge—Euphorbia esula. 
Perennial peppergrass—Lepidium draba. 
Russian Knapweed—Centaurea repens. 
SECONDARY NOXIOUS WEEDS 
Wild carrot—Dacus carota. 
Sour dock—Rumex crispus. 
Smooth dock—Rumex altissimus, 
Sheep sorrel—Rumex acetosella. 
Butterprint—Abutilon theophrasti. 
Mustards—Brassica spp. 
Cocklebur—Xanthium commune. 
Buckhorn—Plantago lanceolata. 
Dodders—Cuscuta spp. 
SCREENINGS, from agricultural seed subject to 
act, shall be prohibited from sale unless _la- 
beled, if in containers, or marked on invoice if 
in bulk. “NOT FOR SEEDING PURPOSES.” 
Screenings shall include chaff, empty florets, 
immature seed, weed seed, inert matter and 
other material removed in any way, by clean- 
ing or processing and containing less than 25% 
of viable agricultural seed. 
“STOP SALE” orders may be issued by the sec- 
retary of agriculture or his agent if he believes 
any provision of the seed act has been violated 
and further sale prohibited until the officer has 
evidence the law has been complied with, or 
the seed has been removed from sales room 
open to the public, or an appeal from such 
order taken to a court of competent jurisdiction 
and the seed discharged from said order if in 
accordance with the finding of the court, the 
owner or custodian paying for a judgment of 
the justification of said order. ; 
SEIZURE OF SEED. Upon the recommendation 
of the state secretary of agriculture or his duly 
authorized agents, the court of competent Juris- 
diction in the area in which the seed is lo- 
cated shall cause the seizure and subsequent 
denaturing, processing, or destruction to prevent 
the use for sowing purposes of any agricultural 
seed, the sale of which is prohibited due to 
(1) the presence of primary noxious weeds, (2) 
containing in excess of 3% of weeds. 
SEED LABORATORY AND TESTS 
Service Laboratory—Extension Department, Iowa 
State College of Agriculture, Ames, Iowa. 
Dr. R. H. Porter, Analyst. 
Test fees—To Iowa residents, 30 cents per sample 
and up depending on kind. 
ENFORCEMENT AND REGULATIONS 
Department of Agriculture d 
Inspection Laboratory—Des Moines, Towa 
E. L. Redfern—Chief Chemist. 
Frank E. Wells—Seed Analvst. 
Why 

KANSAS 
Law of 1935, Amended 1939 
INFORMATION REQUIRED ON 
ANALYSIS TAG. 
(A) Agricultural Seeds. Every lot. 
1, Commonly accepted name. 
2. Percentage of pure seed. : 
3. Percentage of weed seed. 
4. Percentage of inert matter. 
Dy 
Percentage of other agricultural 
(Regulation.) 
seeds. 
BUYERS GUIDE 

6. Percentage of: ; 
(a) Germination, exclusive of hard seeds. 
(b) Hard seeds. 
(c) Date of test. 
year old. 
7. Where grown, if unknown, so state. 
8. Lot or stock number. 
9. Name and number per pound of all nox- 
ious weed seeds present singly or collec- 
tively at the rate of more than 1/10 of 
one per cent by count. 
10. Name and address of vendor. 
Date cannot be over one 




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