CERTIFIED WISCONSIN 
HYBRID 
SEED CORN 
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to every section of the 
northern corn belt from 
Illinois to Montana. 
Also Producers 
of the Famous 
VICLAND 
SEED OATS 
CARLOTS OR LESS 
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TRACY & SON FARMS 
Phone 9671R2 
JANESVILLE 

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SEED LABORATORY 
Department of Agriculture, Charleston, West 
Virginia. 
Marvin H. Snyder, Seed Analyst. 
PESTS 
No charge will be made for the first ten 
tests for any farmer, dealer, person or firm. 
All in excess of 10, the following charges 
shall be made. Purity, 50c for red, white 
and mammoth clovers, alsike, wheat, alfalfa, 
timothy, corn, soybeans, rye, buckwheat. oats, 
flax, kaffr corn, millet, sorghum, field peas 
and vetch. Purity, $1.00 for red top, Ken- 
tucky and Canada blue grass, fescues, rough- 
stalk meadowgrass. Purity, $2.00 for lawn 
grass mixtures and complex field seed mix- 
tures. All germination tests, 25c each. 
ENFORCEMENT AND REGULATIONS 
Department of Agriculture. 
J. B. McLaughlin, Commissioner. 
Certificates of Registration must be obtained 
from the Commissioner of Agriculture for 
each kind of agricultural or vegetable seed 
offered for sale. Application for certificate 
must be accompanied by fee of $5.00 for 
each kind and a certified copy of the com- 
plete information required on the analysis 
tag. 
Certificates are void on June 30th, next— 
succeeding the issuance thereof. 
Registration may be refused or cancelled (1) 
if the application does not contain the com- 
plete information required; (2) if vegetable 
seeds do not meet the minimum requirements 
of germination. (See page 102 for germina- 
tion standards), (3) If agricultural seed or 
mixtures contain quack grass, Canada thistle, 
dodder species or perennial sow thistle in ex- 
cess of five per ounce. (4) If such seeds or 
mixtures contain more than 3% by weight of 
weed seeds. (5) If seeds found on the mar- 
ket are improperly labeled or do not meet the 

guarantee of the seedsman. (6) If it is found 
by the Department laboratory that the labels — 
do not show the correct purity germination © 
and noxious weed seed content. (7) Any seed 
registered in violation of the law or rules 
and regulations. 
CERTIFIED SEED. Seed that has been pro- 
duced and labeled 
and regulations of an officially recognized 
seed-certifying agency. 
HYBRID SEED CORN. The following definitions 
and eligibility requirements are established for 
hybrid corn: 
1. An INBRED LINE is a line of corn that 
has been developed as a result of not less 
than five generations of controlled self-pollina- 
tion, 
2. A SINGLE CROSS is the first generation of 
a hybrid between two inbred lines. 
3. A FOUNDATION HYBRID is a 
cross”? which is to be used in the production 
of hybrids containing more than two inbred 
lines. 
4. A COMMERCIAL HYBRID is one to be 
planted for the production of feed or for any 
other commercial or farm use except for seed. 
It may be any one of the following: 
(a) A Double Cross—the first generation of 
a cross between two “foundation hy- 
brids’’ (single crosses). 
A Three-Way Cross—the first generation 
of a cross between a ‘“‘foundation hy- 
brid” and an ‘‘inbred line.”’ 
(c) A Single Cross—when the single cross 
is to be used for commercial production 
and not for the production of “double” 
or ‘‘three-way’’ crosses. 
A Top-Cross—the first generation of a 
cross between an ‘‘inbred line’ and an 
open-pollinated variety. 
(b) 
(d) 

WISCONSIN 
Law and Regulations of 1941 
INFORMATION REQUIRED ON 
ANALYSIS TAG OR CONTAINER 
(A) Agricultural Seeds (Unmixed). Every 
lot. 
(1) Commonly accepted name or kind, va- 
riety or type. 
Lot or identification number. 
Percentage of purity. 
Percentage of inert matter. 
Percentage of weed seeds. Prohibits, if 
in excess of 5%, except ragweed and 
foxtail which may be present up to 10%, 
including other weeds, singly or collec- 
tively. 
) Percentage of other agricultural 
) Percentage of: 
a. Germination, including hard seeds. 
b. Hard seeds. 
c. Month and year of test. Test shall 
have been completed within a twelve 
month period, exclusive of the month 
in which it was completed. 
Origin of alfalfa, seed grains and corn. 
Name and address of the person who 
labeled the seed, or who sells, offers or 
exposes said seed for sale. 
Name and number per ounce of each 
kind of secondary noxious weed seeds 
peeseut singly or collectively in excess 
of: 
a. 1 in each 25 grams of redtop, Can- 
ada blue grass, Kentucky blue grass 
and seeds of similar size and weight, 
or smaller, and mixtures of such 
seeds. 
b. 1 in each 50 grams of timothy, or- 
chard grass, reed canary grass, 
smooth brome grass, alsike, white and 
38 red clovers, rape, alfalfa, sweet clo- 
ver, rye grasses, millets, flax and 
seeds of similar size and weight and 
mixtures of such seeds. 
1 in each 150 grams of sudan, proso, 
and seeds of similar size and weight, 
and mixtures of such seeds. 
d. 1 in each 300 grams of sorghums, 
buckwheat and seeds of similar size 
and weight, and mixtures of such 
seeds. 
e. 1 in each 500 grams of vetches, ce- 
reals, field corn, beans, field and can- 
ning peas, cowpeas and seeds of 
similar size and weight and mixtures 
of such seeds. 
seed. 
io) 
(B) Mixed Agricultural Seeds. Every lot. 
Same as for unmixed agricultural seed, ex- 
cept that it must be called ‘‘Mixed” or a 
“Mixture,” and the information required 
under items (A) 1, 3 and 7 shall be given 
for each agricultural seed present in excess 
of 5%. 
(C) Vegetable seeds. Every lot. 
(1) Name of kind and variety. 
(2) For seed which germinates less than the 
standard iast established by the depart- 
ment. (See page 102 for standards.) 
a. Percentage of germination. 
b. Month and year of test. Test shall 
have been completed within a twelve 
month period, exclusive of the month 
in which it was completed. 
c. Marked “BELOW STANDARD” in 
not less than 8-point type. 
Name and address of the person who 
labeled the seed, or who sells, offers or 
exposes said seed for sale. 
Vrohibits the sale, offering or exposing 
for sale of— 
(A) Agricultural seeds containing primary 
noxious weeds subject to tolerances. 
(B) Agricultural seeds containing secondary 
noxious weeds, singly or collectively, in 
excess of: 
1 seed in 5 grams of the agricultural 
seeds listed in A-10-a. 
1 seed in 10 grams of the 
seeds listed in A-10-b. 
1 seed in 25 grams of the 
seeds listed in A-10-c. 
1 seed in.50 grams of the 
seeds listed in A-10-d. 
1 seed in 100 grams of the 
seeds listed in A-10-e. 
Any agricultural seed containing in ex- 
cess of 5% of weed seeds, except rag- 
weed (Ambrosia _ elatior) 
(Chaetochle spp.), which may be present 
either singly or collectively at a rate 
not to exceed 10%, if the total weed 
seed content does not exceed 10%. 
Any agricultural or vegetable seed unless 
the test for germination shall have been 
completed within a 12 month period, 
exclusive of the month in which the test 
was completed. 
Any alfalfa seed represented to be 
Grimm, Cossack or Ladak variety and 
any field seed corn represented to be 
hybrid, unless such seed is certified as 
to variety by a seed certifying agency 
which is approved by the department as 
satisfactory for the performance of seed 
certification and the official tag of such 
(3) 
agricultural 
agricultural 
agricultural 
agricultural 
(C) 
(D) 
(E) 
agency is properly attached to each con- 
tainer, 
NOXIOUS WEEDS 
(A) Primary Noxious Weeds. 
PROHIBIT SEED CONTAINING ANY SUB- } 
JECT TO TOLERANCES. 
Field bindweed—Convolvulus arvensis; Leafy is 
spurge—Euphorbia esula; Canada thistle— 
Cirsium arvense; 
repens. 
(B) Secondary Noxious Weeds. 
Dodders—Cuscuta spp.; Wild mustard—Bras- bi 
sica arvensis; Indiana mustard—Brassica 
juncea; Buckhorn—Plantago lanceolata; Ox- 
eye daisy—Chrysanthemum Jleucanthemum; 
Perennial sow thistle—Sonchus arvensis. 
SEED TRADE 
in accordance with the © 
procedures and in compliance with the rules — 
“single | 
and foxtail 
Quack grass—Agropyron — 
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