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We Specialize in— 
CREEPING 
REU FESCUE 
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QUALITY 
INOCULANTS 
Farmogerm 
First 
lant. 
successful inocu- 
Contains pure cul- 
tures only. Distinctive 
features to make easy 
and sustained sales. 


Humogerm 
Also one of the orig- 
inals. High count of 
pure cultures in hu- 
mus base. Aerated 
container. 
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The advertisement shall state: 
(1) Name and variety of the seed. 
(2) The quantity. 
(3) Why seized and offered for sale. 
(4) Time and place of sale. 
The Commissioner may release seed so with- 
drawn from sale when the requirements of 
this act have been complied with and upon 
payment of all costs or expenses incurred in 
such seizure and withdrawal. 
ADDITIONAL FEATURES 
Variety. The vendor will be held responsible 
for declaring the variety of all seed not 
4 
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 in 
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 FOR: 
(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 lot identification. 
) 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. 
ec. 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 Ba and b and per pound in Be 
and d 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. 
c. 1 seed in each 50 grams. 
d. 1 seed in each 100 grams. 
(9) 
(10) 
(B) Mixed agricultural seeds. Every lot. 
Same as for unmixed seed, except 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 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. 
c. 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 completed. 
d. Words “BELOW MINIMUM 
STANDARD” in not less than 
8-point type. 
Name and address of person who labels 
the seed. or who sells, offers or exposes 
said seed for sale. 
(D) Hybrid Seed Corn. Every Lot. 
(1) Labeled the same as Agricultural seeds. 
(2) rersoe or firm selling hybrid seed corn 
shall: 
a. Register with the State Secretary of 
Agriculture. 
Furnish the pedigree of such hybrid 
seed corn. 
c. Furnish a sample when called on for 
testing purposes. 
Any _seed corn sold as hybrid must represent 
the first generation of a cross between strains 
of different parentage and involve lines of 
corn of a high degree of inbreeding or close 
breeding or their combinations. Such cross 
shall be nroduced by cross-fertilization con- 
trolled either by hand or by detasseling at 
the proper time. 
NOXIOUS WEEDS 
Primary noxious weed seeds 
PROHIBITED IN SEED SUBJECT TO 
TOLERANCES 
Field bindweed—Convolvulus arvensis; Leafy 
spurge—Euphorbia esula, and E. lucida; Per- 
ennial peppergrass—Lepidium draba; Rus- 
sian knapweed—Centaurea repens; Perennial 
sow thistle—Sonchus arvensis; Canada This- 
tle—Cirsium arvense; Quack grass—-Agro- 
pyron repens; Horse nettle—Solanum caro- 
linense. 
Secondary noxious weeds. 
Wild oats—Avena fatua; Dodders—Cuscuta 
spp.; Wild mustards—Brassica arvensis, B. 
nigra, B. juncea; Penny cress—Thlaspi ar 
vense; Ivy leaved morning glory—Ipomoea 
hederacea; Hedge bindweed—Convolvulus se- 
pium; Wild carrot—Daucus carota. 
PROHIBIT THE SALE, OFFERING OR 
EXPOSING FOR SALE OF SEED: 
a. Unless the test for germination has been 
completed within a nine month period. 
b. Containing primary noxious weeds sub- 
ject to tolerances. 
SEED LABORATORY AND TESTS 
Department of Agronomy, South Dakota. 
State College of Agriculture, Brookings, 
South Dakota. ; 
E. L, Erickson—Ass’t Agronomist in charge 
of Seed Laboratory. 
Tests. Charges for laboratory services— 
Most purity and germination 
tests 4. Sere oiavisjelenicare ares 50 per sample. 
Chaffy grasses and mixtures...80 ” ” 
Corn‘cerminationy oe eee eee 25 ae is 
Noxious weed examination....20 ” a 
Disease. tests: <iscte.t dois os = 
0 
Uncleaned seed will be tested and charged 
for on the basis of time required. 
ENFORCEMENT. 
Enforcement under the State Secretary of 
Agriculture E. H. Everson, Pierre, South 
Dakota. 
“STOP SALE” order may be issued and en- 
forced by the State Secretary of Agriculture 
to the owner or custodian of any lot of agri- 
cultural or vegetable seed which he finds in 
violation of any of the provisions of this 
act. No such order shall be issued or en- 
forced without first having given the owner 
or custodian an opportunity to comply with 
the act or withdraw the seed from sale. If 
the seed has been denied sale as provided in 
this paragraph, the owner or custodian shall 
have the right to appeal from such order to 
a court of competent jurisdiction where the 
seeds are found, praying for a judgment as 
to the jurisdiction of said order and a dis- 
charge of such seed from the order prohibit- 
ing the sale in accordance with the findings 
of the court, 
SEIZURE. Any lot of agricultural or vegeta- 
ble seed not in compliance with the provisions 
of this Act snau ve supject to seizure on 
complaint of the State Secretary of Agricul- 
ture to a court of competent jurisdiction in 
the area in which the seed is located. If the 
court finds the seed to be in such violation 
of the Act and orders the condemnation of 
said seed, it shall be processed, destroyed, 
relabeled, or otherwise disposed of in com- 
pliance with the rules of the State Secretary 
of Agriculture; Provided, that in no instance 
shall such disposition of said seed be ordered 
by the court without first having given the 
claimant an opportunity to apply to the court 
for the release of said seed or permission to 
process or relabel it to bring it into compli- 
ance with this act. 
ADDITIONAL FEATURES 
FARMERS are exempt from complying with 
provisions of this act when selling corn, 
wheat, oats, barley, rye, flax, spelt, emmer, 
buckwheat, Sorghum, beans and peas when 
grown, sold and delivered on his premises to 
the purchaser. 
Certified or registered seed sold, offered for 
sale or transported in South Dakota must 
have the approval and authorization of the 
State Secretary of Agriculture. 
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