NOXIOUS WEEDS 
Wild onion; Bermuda grass; Johnson grass; 
dodder; hawkweed; bindweed; nut grass or 
cocoa grass; dock and plaintain. 
SEED LABORATORY AND TESTS 
State Seed Laboratory, State College. 
A. D.. Suttle, Analyst, State College, Mis- 
sissippi. 
Any citizen of Mississippi has the privilege 
of submitting not more than 10 samples of 
agricultural and vegetable seeds for free test 
and analysis in any one year. Charges to 
non-residents to be fixed by the Commissioner 
of Agriculture. 
' ENFORCEMENT 
State Department of Agriculture, Jackson. 
Si Corley, Commissioner of Agriculture. 
J. M. Dean, Chief Inspector. 
Seedsmen must secure permit of Commis- 
sioner of Agriculture annually, $1.00 for 
each seedsman registered and 25 cents for 
each agent. 
WITHDRAW FROM SALE. 
Seeds not having a reasonable viability, or that 
are extremely impure, notwithstanding that 
they may be properly labeled, shall be with- 
drawn from sale when, in the opinion of the 
Commissioner such withdrawal is in the interest 
of normal crop production. 
SEIZURE OF SEED. 
The Commissioner of Agriculture may seize and 
hold any lot of agricultural or vegetable seeds 
found to violate any of the provisions of the 
seed act until the law has been complied with 
and said violation otherwise legally disposed of. 
ADDITIONAL FEATURES 
Notice of Shipment: 
(a) Notice of shipment of agricultural or 
vegetable seeds shall be mailed within 24 
hours from shipping date and shall bear: 
(1) Name and address of shipper. 
(2) Name and address of person to 
whom shipped. 
(3) The amount. 
(4) The kind and variety of seed. 
(S$) The lot numbers of seed. 
(b) Notice of the location of so-called com- 
mission boxes of packet seed shall state: 
(1) Number of boxes. 
(2) Number and size of packages in each. 
(3) Their classification as to kinds of 
seed contained therein. 
(4) Name and address of shipper and 
party to whom delivered. 
Size of analysis tag shall be 434 x 23% inches, 
or equivalent in square inches. 
All information required an analysis tag shall 
be placed on one side of the label without 
intervening matter. 
The date on the analysis tags should be the 
date the germination test was completed. 
A complete analysis totaling 100% must be 
given. Blank spaces on a form tag or incom- 
plete analysis are not permissible. 
Abbreviation of names of the variety and 
kind of seed is not permissible. 
Place of origin shall not be used as part of 
varietal name and kind of seed, as Miss. oats. 
Modifying words or phrases shall not be used 
in connection with the variety, as “type,” ‘‘for 
forage purposes,”’ etc. 
Brand names, designs, grades or pictures indi- 
cating a contradiction to any part of the 
analysis shall not be permitted. 
Different varieties of the same _kind of seed, 
when in quantitites less than 5%, will be con- 
sidered other crop seed. 
Invoices and records of purchase or sale of 
all seed by the dealer or seedsman shall be 
accessible for examination by authorized 
agent of the Department of Agriculture for a 
period of 3 years. 
Trucks or other motor conveyors transporting 
seed for sale on the public highways shall 
have available for examination a bill of lad 
ing, waybill, or delivery receipt showing (1) 
the name of the shipper or party from whom 
purchased; (2) the name and address of the 
party to whom seeds are to be delivered; (3) 
the kind and amount of each separate kind of 
seed and (4) the name of the truck driver 
and truck line making the delivery. 
Farmer seed sold off the premises to be used 
for planting purposes must be tagged. Seeds 
gathered in elevator or other establishments 
to be sold by farmers or others are subject to 
the act. 
Express, mail and freight, including truck 
deliveries to consumers of seed shall also be 
subject to provisions and rules and regula- 
tions pertaining to the enforcement of the 
Seed Law. 
New analysis tag bearing the name of the 
vendor or other party responsible shall be 
placed on seed after the original test date 
becomes 180 days old. 
Worthless seed may not be sold or given 
away for planting purposes. Seed will be 
considered worthless if it contains in excess 
of 21%4% total weeds or 300 noxious weeds 
per pound, or is of excessively low germina- 
tion or mislabeled seed, whose variety 1s 
unadapted and unsuited for seeding purposes 
in Mississippi. 
Seeds treated with fungicides shall show on 
the label the words ‘‘Poison Treated” in not 
less than 14-inch face red type. 
Minimum germination. No agricultural seed 
except grasses, unscarified legumes, garden 
seed listed in the Standards for Germination 
and seed released by the U. S. customs shall 
be offered for sale if the germination is be- 
low 60%. 
Excessive Noxious Weeds. Seeds containing 
more than 200 noxious weeds per pound shall 
be labeled in red ink in not less than 12 point 
type “Excessive Noxious Weeds.”’ Such ex- 
cess shall not exceed 300 per pound. 
Seed labeled or sold as “Certified,” ‘‘Regis- 
tered’ or “Pedigreed” must have been certi- 
fied or registered and inspected by an officially 
authorized agency and cannot be sold in 
Mississippi unless the party selling shall have 
régistered with the Mississippi Department of 
Agriculture Seed I.aboratory the lot number, 
variety and kind, name and address of the 
grower, and the history of the seed. 
False wild oats will be considered weeds. 
Permits. All seed permits expire December 
31 of each year. Failure to secure permit by 
March 1 will incur a penalty equivalent to 
the cost of the license; anybody selling seed 
required to be tested and tagged is required 
to have a permit. 








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