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LA GERMINADORA 
Hijos de $. V. Bellotti Co. 
Largest Growers of 
CERTIFIED 
Vegetable and 
field Seed 
in the 
Hirgentine Republic 
Importers and Exporters 
of All Kinds of Seed 
0459 Guanacache 
Buenos fires, 
Republica Argentina 
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The GIANT 
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CLOVER SEED 
Grows from three to four 
times as fast and as large as 
ordinary white clover. 
Makes an excellent pasture 
and will handle more stock per 
acre than any other crop. 
All seed certified, sealed and 
shipped under State super- 
vision. 
Write for Samples and Prices 
JOSEPHINE 
GROWERS COOP. ASSN. 
Largest Growers of Certified Ladino Seed 
in the United States 
GRANTS PASS OREGON 

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(2) Lot number or other lot identification. 
(3) Percentage of pure seed. 
(4) Percentage of inert matter. 
(5) Percentage of common weed seeds. 
(6) Percentage of other agricultural seeds. 
(7) Percentage of: 
a. Germination. 
b. Hard seeds. 
c. Month and year of test. 
(8) Origin of seed. 
(9) Full name and address of person, firm 
or corporation selling, offering, exposing 
or transporting seeds for sale. 
(B) Mixed Agricultural Seeds. Five 
pounds or more. 
Same as for unmixed agricultural seeds, ex- 
cept that the requirements under items (A) 
1, 3 and 7 shall be given for each kind or 
variety present in excess of 5%. 
(C) Vegetable Seeds. Five pounds or over. 
Label as agricultural seeds. (A) 
Prohibits the sale, offering or exposing 
for sale or distribution of— 
Agricultural or vegetable seed containing any 
of the seeds of the named perennial noxious 
weed seeds. 
NOXIOUS WEEDS 
Cocoa grass—Cyperus rotundus; horse nettle 
—Solanium carolinense; Austrian field cress 
—Roripa austriaca; camel thorn—Alhagi ca- 
melorum; Canada thistl——Cirsium arvense; 
field bindweed—Convolvulus arvensis; leafy 
spurge—Euphorbia esula; perennial ragweed 
—Ambrosia psilostachya; perennial sow this- 
tle—Sonchus arvensis; quack grass—Agropy- 
ron repens; Russian knapweed—Centaurea 
repens; St. John’s wort—Hypericum perfo- 
ratum; whitetop — Lepidium repens and 
draba; flowering spurge—Euphorbia corollata; 
ox-eye daisy — Chrysanthemum leucanthe- 
mum; spreading dogbane—Apocynum andro- 
saemifolium; yellow cress—Roripa sylvestris; 
White leaved Franseria—Franseria discolor; 
Austrian peaweed—Swainsona salsula; lance- 
leaved sage, Salvia lanceolata. 
“STOP SALE” any agricultural or vegetable 
seeds containing noxious weed seeds shall be 
removed from sale and impounded by the 
Commissioner of Agriculture, his duly 
authorized seed inspectors or agents and shall 
be released only.upon the following condi- 
tions: 
a. Complete destruction. 
b. Removal outside the boundaries of the 
state. 
c. Recleaned so that no noxious perennial - 
weed seeds are present. 
SCREENINGS of any seeds or grains offered 
or exposed for sale shall be labeled as such 
and not sold as seed. They shall be free of 
noxious, perennial weed seeds. Screenings 
found to contain noxious weed seeds shall be 
subject to seizure and destruction by the 
Commissioner of Agriculture, his duly au- 
thorized agents or inspectors. 
LABORATORY AND TESTS 
Agricultural Experiment Station. 
Laramie, Wyoming. Lambert C. Erickson, 
analyst. 
Charges of fifty cents will be made for each 
test, however ranchers and farmers may se- 
cure two tests free each calender year. 
CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION shall be 
obtained by each person, firm, or corpora- 
tion before selling, offering or exposing for 
sale or distribution any agricultural or vege- 
table seed, such certificate expiring Decem- 
ber 31st of each year. 
Applications for certificate of registration 
shall be accompanied by: 
a. Name and address of the person, firm, or 
corporation to which the certificate is to 
be issued. 
b. The location of the place of business. 
c. Payment of one dollar ($1.00). 
STATE TAG. The authorized labeling tag 
may be furnished by the State Department of 
Agriculture at a cost of one cent each. 

FEDERAL SEED ACT—INTERSTATE COMMERCE 
August 1939 
INFORMATION REQUIRED ON 
ANALYSIS TAG OR CONTAINER 
(A) Agricultural seeds (unmixed) 
Every lot, effective February 1940 
1. Name of: 
(a) Kind or 
(b) Kind and variety or 
(c) Kind and type. 
Lot number or other identification. 
Percentage of pure seed. 
Percentage of other crop seed. 
Percentage of inert matter. 
Percentage of weed seeds. 
Name of noxious weed seed and rate of oc- 
currence expressed in accordance with and 
not to exceed the rate allowed by the law 
and regulations of the State into which the 
seed is transported. 
8. Percentage of germination exclusive of hard 
seeds. 
9. Percentage of hard seeds if present. 
10. Calendar month and year germination test 
was completed. No more than 5 calendar 
months shall have elapsed between the last 
day of the month in which the germination 
test was completed and the date of trans- 
portation or delivery for transportation in 
interstate commerce. (Regulation.) 
11. Origin of alfalfa, red clover and fie'd corn 
except hybrid corn; if unknown, that fact 
shall be stated. Whenever such seed  origi- 
nates in more than one State, the name of 
each State and the percentage of seed origi- 
nating in each State shall be given in the 
order of its predominance. (Regulation.) 
12. Name and address of person transporting 
the seed in interstate commerce or the name 
of person to whom the seed is shipped to- 
gether with the code designation of the 
shipper. 
(B) Mixtures 
As unmixed except that the information re- 
quired under items 1, 3, 8, 9, 10 and 11 shall 
be given for each agricultural seed component 
present in excess of 5% of the whole. 
SDM SPW DY 
(C) Vegetable seeds— Effective August, 
1940 
1. Name of kind and variety. 
2. Name and address of person who transports 
the seed in interstate commerce or the per- 
son to whom the seed is shipped, together 
with the code designation of the shipper. 
For seed which germinates less than the Stand- 
ard established by the Secretary of Agriculture: 
SE pease of germination exclusive of hard 
seed. 
4. Percentage of hard seed, if present. 
5. Calendar month and year the test was com- 
pleted. No more than 5 calendar months 
shall have elapsed between the last day of 
the ‘month in which the germination test 
was completed and the date of transporta- 
tion or delivery for transportation in inter- 
state commerce. (Regulations.) 
6. The words ‘‘Below Standard” in 8 point 
type. 
CERTIFIED OR REGISTERED SEED.—The 
terms “‘certified seed’? and ‘registered seed’’ 
mean seed that has been produced in accord- 
ance with the procedures and in compliance 
with the rules and regulations of an officially 
recognized seed-certifying agency. 
HYBRID SEED CORN.—The term “Hybrid 
seed corn’? means the first-generation seed of 
a cross produced by controlling the pollina- 
tion, and by combining two, three, or four in- 
bred lines, or by combining on inbred line or 
a single cross with an open-pollinated variety. 
Hybrid designations shall be treated as variety 
names, 
RECORDS.—Each person handling  agricul- 
tural seed subject to the act shall keep for a 
period of 3 years a complete record of each 
lot of agricultural seed handled, except that 
any seed sample may be discarded 1 year after 
the entire lot represented by such sample has 
been disposed of by such person. 
SCREENINGS.—Screenings of any seed sub- 
ject to this Act, unless they are not intended 
for seeding purposes; and it is stated on the 
label, if in containers, or on the invoice if in 
bulk. that they are intended for cleaning, proc- 
essing, or manufacturing purposes, and not for 
seeding purposes, shall not be shipped in inter- 
state commerce. The term ‘screenings’? means 
chaff, sterile florets, immature seed, weed seed, 
inert matter, and any other materials removed 
in any way from any seeds in any kind of 
cleaning or processing and which contains less 
han 25% of live agricultural or vegetable 
seeds. 
AGRICULTURAL MARKETING 
SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS: 
Aug. 24, 1940—The use of ‘Affidavit Grimm 
Alfalfa’? phrase is prohibited. The word 
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