WM. G.SCARLETT 
& C0. 
Officeand Seed Cleaning Plant 
729-743 E. Pratt St. 
BALTIMORE, MD., U.S. A. 
Cable Address, 
“Scarlett, Baltimoremd’’ 
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Field Seeds 
® 
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WHOLESALE 
BROKER 
IN 
CLOVER SEEDS 
CRASSESEEDS 
RAPRESSEEDS 
From the Production to the 
Consuming sections. 
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H. J. MAYER 
99 Hudson St., New York, N. Y. 

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(C) Vegetable Seeds. Every package (Sec. 
9). Every parcel or package of 14 
pounds or more (Sec. 18). 
Variety. 
(2) Percentage of purity 
(3) Percentage of weed Prohibit if 
in excess of 5%. (Regulations.) 
(4) Percentage of germination. 
(5) For seed which germinates less than the 
established standard. (Regulations.) 
(See standards, page 102.) 
a. Percentage of: 
seeds. 
Germination, exclusive of hari 
seeds. 
2. Hard seeds. 
3. Month and year of test. Not more 
than 5 months shall elapse be- 
tween the month the test is com- 
pleted and the date of transpor- 
tation or delivery for transporta- 
tion in interstate commerce. 
b. The words ‘BELOW STANDARD,’ 
in not less than 8-point type. 
(D) Flower Seeds. Every package (Sec. 9). 
Every parcel or package of 10 pounds 
or more (Sec. 18). 
(1) Variety. 
(2) Percentage of purity. 
(3) Percentage of germination. 
Prohibits the sale, offering or exposing 
for sale of agricultural vegetab/e or 
flower seeds if—(Regulations) 
(1) Containing in excess of 5% of weeds, 
carpet grass 10%. : 
(2) Containing 15 or more noxious weed 
seeds, singly or collectively, per ounce. 
NOXIOUS WEEDS—Prohibit 15 or more 
per ounce, 
label if less. 
Wild Onion or Wild Garlic, all Dodders, 
Corn Cockle, Cheat or Chess, Wild Oats, 
Johnson Grass, Wild Mustard, Canada This- 
tle, Black Mustard, Sand Bur, Nut Grass. 
singly or collectively. 
CONFISCATION AND DISPOSITION OF 
SEIZED SEEDS. 
Any agricultural, vegetable or flower seeds 
offered or exposed for sale which do not 
comply with the requirements of the seed act 
shall be seized and condemned, sold or de- 
stroyed by the Commiss‘oner of Agriculture, 
Commerce, and Industry or his duly author- 
ized representative, the proceeds from such 
sale shall be converted into the State Treas- 
ury. The sale shall be made at the court 
house door in the county in which the seizure 
was made, and shall be advertised for thirty 
days in a newspaper in the county, or if no 
newspaper be published in the county, then 
it shall be published in the nearest county. 
The advertisement shall state: 
(1) Name and variety of the seed. 
(2) The quantity. 
(3) Why seized and offered for ales 
(4) Time and place of sale. 
The Commissioner may release seed so with- 
drawn from sale when the requirements of 
this act have been compiied with and upon 
payment of all costs or expenses incurred in 
such seizure and withdrawal. 
SEED LABORATORY AND TESTS 
Department of Agriculture, Columbia, South 
Carolina. 
Commissioner may limit the number of free 
tests to residents. ; : 
Fee for purity tests $2.00, germination tests 
$1.00 to non-residents. 
ENFORCEMENT AND REGULATIONS 
Commissioner of Agriculture, J. Roy Jones, 
Columbia, South Carolina. 
License—Payable January 1st annually. 
$ 1.00—Where only boxed package vegetable 
or flower seed are handled. 
2.50—-Where gross business is less than 
$200, with or without package vege- 
table or flower seeds. 
5.00—-Where gross business is over $200 
and less than $500. 
10.00—-Where gross business is over $500 
and less than $1,000. 
25.00—Where gross business is $1,000 or 
more. 
Commissioner may withdraw from sale seed 
not having reasonable germination or that are 
extremely impure, notwithstanding they may 
be properly labeled, if such withdrawal is in 
the interest of normal crop production. 
Agricultural seeds shall have a germination 
of 75% (except legumes), if the germination 
is below 75% and above 49% they shall be 
marked “BELOW STANDARD IN. GER- 
MINATION,” if the germination is less 
than 50% (except legumes) the seed cannot 
be sold 
Germination standards of crotarlaria and les- 
pedeza shall be 60% calculated as ‘‘pure live 
seed.”’ If below 60% and above 39% “pure 
live seed’? it must be labeled “BELOW 
STANDARD.” If less than 40% “pure live 
seed” it cannot be sold. 
Germination standards for other legumes 
shall be 75% calculated as “pure live seed.” 
If below 75% and above 49% ‘“‘pure live 
seed’’ it shall be labeled “BELOW STAND- 
ARD.” If below 50% “pure live seed’’ it 
cannot be sold. 
Variety. The vendor will be held responsible 
for declaring the variety of all 
clearly distinguishable from other varieties. 
Quantity to be labeled. All agricultural, 
vegetable or flower seed offered or exposed 
for sale, shall bear standard tag or label ex- 
cept seed sold across the counter from bin or 
container when such container carries stand- 
ard label in full view. 
A mixture means seed consisting of more 
than one kind or variety each present im 
excess of 5% of the whole. 
Certified and registered seed must have been 
produced in accordance with the procedures 
and in compliance with the rules and regula- 
tions of an officially recognized seed certify- 
ing agency. 

SOUTH DAKOTA 
Act of 1941 
INFORMATION REQUIRED ON 
ANALYSIS TAGS OR CONTAINERS. 
(A) Agricultural Seeds. Every lot. 
(1) 
Commonly accepted name of: 
a. Kind or, 
b. Kind and variety or, 
c. Kind and type. 
Lot number or other 
Percentage of purity. 
Percentage of inert matter. 
Percentage of weed seeds. 
Percentage of other agricultural seeds. 
Percentage of: 
a. Germination, exclusive of hard seeds. 
b. Hard seeds. 
c. Month and year of test. Test shall 
have been completed within a nine 
month _perid, exclusive of the month 
in which it was completed. 
Following a and b “Total germination and 
hard seed’? may be given if desired. 
(8) State and county where grown, for al- 
falfa, red clover and field corn (except 
hybrid). 
Name and address of person who labels 
the seed, or who sells, offers or exposes 
said seed for sale. 
Name and number of each kind of sec- 
ondary noxious weed seed, per ounce in 
groups Bl and B2 and per pound in B3 
and B4 when present singly or collec- 
tively in excess of: 
a. 1 seed in each 10 grams. 
(See page 106. Group B.) 
b. 1 seed in each 25 grams. 
(2) 
@) 
(4) 
(5) 
(6) 
(7) 
lot identification. 
(9) 
(16) 
c. 1 seed in each 50 grams. 
d. 1 seed in each 100 grams. 
(B) Mixed agricultural seeds. Every lot. 
Same as for unmixed seed, 
must be called ‘‘Mixed” or a ‘Mixture’ and 
the information required under items (A) 
1, 3 and 7 shall be given for each agricul- 
tural seed present in excess of 5% in the 
order of its predominance. 
(C) Vegetable seeds. Every lot. 
(1) Name of kind and variety. 
(2) For seed which germinates less than the 
minimum standard established by the 
State Secretary of Agriculture. (See 
page 102 for standards.) 
a. Percentage of germination, exclusive 
of hard seed. 
b. Percentage of hard seed. 
Month and year test was completed. 
Test shall have been completed with- 
in a nine month period, exclusive of 
the month in which it was en 
d. Words “BELOW MINIMUM 
STANDARD” in than 
8-point type. 
Name and address of person who labels 
the seed, or who sells, offers or exposes 
said seed for sale. 
(except that it 
not less 
(3) 
Prohibits the sale, offering or exposing 
for sale, of agricultural or vegetable seed. 
a. Unless the test for germination has been 
completed within a nine month period. 
b. Containing primary noxious weeds sub- 
ject to tolerances. 
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