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LABORATORY AND TESTS 
Federal-State Laboratory at Columbia, Missouri. 
Missouri College of Agriculture, cooperating with 
the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 
W. C. Etheridge, Collaborator in charge. 
Miss Clara Fuhr, Analyst, U. S. Dept. 
Agriculture. 
May regulate the maximum number of free 
samples tested for any one person or firm 
in a given period of time. 
ENFORCEMENT AND REGULATIONS 
Missouri State Department of Agriculture, 
Jefferson City, Missouri. 
W. R. Crispin, Marketing Specialist, Grain 
and Seed Division, U. S. Dept. of Agri- 
culture. 
Permit number to be secured annually at cost 
of $1.00 on application to Department of Agri- 
culture. The permit expires December 31 each 
year. 
“Each container” means each and every packet 
containing seeds. 
Hard Seeds—Law includes hard seed in per cent 
of germination and requires separate statement. 
Any lot of seed of more than 10 pounds sold 
from bulk direct to the purchaser shall be ac- 
companied by a copy of the label attached to 
the container of the bulk lot of seed. 
Hemp (Cannabis sativa) shall always be con- 
sidered a weed when found as an incidental 
seed. 
Any seed treated with a substance poisonous 
to human beings or animals shall show on 
the label or a separate tag the word “‘poison”’ 
or “treated”? or “poison treated.”’ 
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MONTANA 
Law of 1913 and Amendments to 1939 
INFORMATION REQUIRED ON 
ANALYSIS TAG 
(A) Agricultural seeds. One pound or 
Fees—Residents of Montana receive 5 free 
samples each year. A charge of SO cents each 
will be made upon additional samples. Purity 
analysis of special mixtures will be made at the 
rate of 75 cents per hour of actual time re- 
BIRD SEED more. quired. 
F ARM SEED 4 oe number or OS distinguishing mark. 
. Commonly accepted name. 
3. Variety; if unknown, state “Unknown.” ENFORCEMENT AND REGULATIONS 
GRASS SEED 4. Percentage of pure seed. Enforcement under Department of Agriculture 
5. Percentage of weed seed. Helena, Montana oe: 
6. Percentage of inert matter. J. T. Kelly, Commissioner. : 
see 7. Percentage of other crop seed. : When blank spaces on the label are unfilled, it 
8. Name and number per pound of noxious shall be deemed to imply the word “none’’. 
PRUNTY SEED & GRAIN CO. 
620 N. Second 
St. Louis, Mo. 
In Our 69th Year of Seed Service 

weeds present in excess of: 
(a) One in 5 grams. 
(See page 106, group A.) 
(b) One in 25 grams. 
(c) One in 100 grams. 
9. Percentage of germination, together with 
date of test. In cases where there are hard 
seed, these shall be stated separately with 
the provision that any portion or all the 
per cent of such hard seed may be added 
to the per cent of germination and stated 
as ‘“‘total live seed’’. 
10. Name of state where grown. 
11. Name and address of vendor. 
(B) Mixtures. One pound. 
(part of the law) 
Classification of seeds. 
1. Agricultural seeds shall be seeds which, be- 
fore the removal of weed seed and inert mat- 
ter, shall be 75% pure seed, except in grass 
seed which contain a high per cent of empty 
glumes and is otherwise of good quality. 
2. Mixed agricultural seed shall be seeds which, 
before the removal of weed seed and inert 
matter, consists of 75% or more of agricul- 
tural seeds of two or more kinds in excess 
of 5% each. Grains for which Federal Stand- 
ards have been fixed shall be classed as to 
mixtures of the individual grains but not as 
mixed grain, and shall be designated as pro- 
vided for in the Federal Standards. 
1. Name of mixture. i. Ae 3. Screenings shall be seeds which, before the 
° ° ° 2. Lot number or other distinguishing mark. — removal of weed seeds and inert matter, 
We Specialize JIL 3. Name and percentage of each kind of agri- consist of less than 75% agricultural seeds. 
cultural seed present in excess of 5% of Such screenings shall be designated according 
total mixture. to the kind or kinds of seed present. 
be Percentage of weed seeds. Local dealer may use the wholesaler’s label 
M ONT AN A 5. Pee of inert matter. for only ninety days provided it complies with 
6. Percentage of other crop seeds. : the Montana labeling requirements. 
7. Name and number per pound of noxious Seed labels complying with the Montana Seed 
GROWN 
ALFALFA SEED 
Hardiest in America 
From grower direct to 
wholesale dealers in 
car or truck lots. 
Also 
CRESTED WHEAT GRASS 
BROME GRASS 
SWEET CLOVER 
RED CLOVER 
(C) 
weeds present singly or collectively in excess 
of one seed in each 15 grams. 
8. Percentage of germination of each kind of 
agricultural seed present in excess of 5%, 
together with the month and year tested. 
In cases where there are hard seed, these 
shall be stated separately with the provision 
that any proportion or all the per cent of 
such hard seeds may be added to the per 
cent of germination and stated as “‘total live 
seed’’, 
9. Name and address of vendor. 
Vegetable seed are not included in 
the law. 
NOXIOUS WEEDS 
Quack grass; fanweed or French weed: wild 
oats; dodder; Canada thistle; wild mustard; 
wild morning glory; white top; leafy spurge; 
Perea sow thistle; Russian knapweed; blue 
ettuce, 
SEED LABORATORY AND TESTS 
Montana Grain Inspection Laboratory, 
Agricultural Experiment Station, 
Bozeman, Montana. 
W. O. Whitcomb, Analyst. 
Law may be purchased from the Montana Grain 
Inspection Laboratory at $1.00 per 100 or 2 
cents each in lesser amounts. 
4. Hybrid Seed Corn shall be _ seed of 
the first generation of a cross involving two, 
three or four different inbred lines of corn 
or their combinations, and shall be restricted 
to seed of single crosses, these in turn being 
defined as follows: 1. Single cross—The 
first generation of a hybrid between two in- 
bred lines. 2. Three-way cross—The first 
generation of a hybrid between a single cross 
and an inbred line. 3. Double cross—The 
first generation of hybrid between two 
single crosses. 
The name or number by which the hybrid 
seed corn is designated shall be plainly 
written or printed on the label of every lot, 
parcel or bag of seed corn sold as hybrid 
seed, in addition to the labeling require- 
ments specified in Section 3594. 
The pedigree of hybrid corn and the name 
of breeder who developed each inbred line 
involved in the cross shall be filed with the 
Montana Grain Inspection Laboratory of 
the Montana Agricultural Experiment Sta- 
tion at Bozeman by the wholesaler or vendor 
of every lot of hybrid seed corn before such 
is offered for sale in Montana for seeding 
purposes. 



NEBRASKA 
Act As Revised to 1940, Rules and Regulations to 1940 
INFORMATION REQUIRED ON A) Agri 
ANAT CISREEO (A) abe en Seeds. Ten pounds or 
(All tags to be approved by Department of 1. Commonly accepted name. 
Agriculture and bear printed words, ‘State of Py NO 
Nebraska approved Official Label.’’) a Penenioes i ten 
MONTANA SEED CO. 
Bozeman, Montana 



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