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Utah and Idaho Moun- 
tain grown common and 
Grimm Alfalfa, medium 
redand whitesweet clover 

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grown seeds direct 
from producing section 
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SEED COMPANY 
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 




GRAIN & COMMISSION CO. 
FT. WORTH, TEXAS 
Specializing 
SUUAN GRASS 
and other 
FURAGE SEEDS 
MILLETS—CANES 
SURGHUM GRAINS 
Tone Wii White 

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Oxeye Daisy 
Quack Grass 
Johnson on Prohibited except in unhulled 
Wild Onion crimson clover. 
Commissioner of Agriculture may prescribe a 
maximum number of noxious weeds per pound. 

* Maximum dodder in lespedeza 100 per pound. 
Wild onion allowed in small grains within pre- 
scribed tolerances. 
Red clover may contain not more than 500 
noxious weed seeds per pound, of which not more 
than 100 shall be of the dodder species. 
Orchard grass may contain not more than 500 
noxious weed seeds per pound, of which not 
more than 100 shall be ox-eye daisy. 
LABORATORY 
State Department of Agriculture, Nashville, 
Tenn. F. H. Spanier, Analyst. 
ENFORCEMENT 
C. C. Flanery, Commissioner of Agriculture; 
V. L. Fuqua, Supt. and State Chemist. 
There shall be an inspection fee of: 
a. 2 cents a bushel on red, white, alsike and 
crimson clovers, lespedeza, alfalfa, Kentucky 
blue grass, timothy, bromegrass, orchard 
grass, red top, meadow fescue, oat grass, rye 
grass, millet, Bermuda grass, Sudan grass, 
soy beans, cowpeas, vetches and Austrian 
winter peas. 
b. 2 cents for a 2% bushel bag of cereals, ex- 
cept Oats which shall be 2 cents on a five 
bushel bag. 
2 cents per 100 pounds of cotton. 
Cereals and fibers sold in bags of other sizes 
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than given above shall carry an inspection fee 
of 1 cent per bushel. 
e. 1 cent for each package of 2 ounces or less of 
tobacco seed. 
There shall be a License Fee of $1.00 per annum 
besides the inspection fee. The same fee shall 
apply to vegetable and flower seed. 
ADDITIONAL FEATURES 
Certified seed. Use of the word “CERITFIED” 
limited to seed certified by a certifying agency or 
to seed registered by the International Crop Im- 
provement Association. 
Certification tag must show: 
1. Grower’s name or number and address. 
Name and address of certifying agency. 
The state, province, territory or county where 
grown. 
Disclaimer Clause. Use of the disclaimer clause 
on the tag is prohibited. 
Maximum Noxious Weeds. Maximum number 
of noxious weed seeds allowed in seed sold or of- 
fered for sale is: 
1 per pound in corn, cotton, tobacco, sorghum, 
cowpeas, soybeans and Austrian peas. 
20 per pound in wheat, barley, oats, rye, buck- 
wheat and vetch. 
50 per pound in rye grass, fescues, tall oat, 
Sudan, millets, bromes, red top, bluegrass, Ber- 
muda, timothy and dallis. 
100 per pound in lespedeza, red clover, sweet 
clover, crimson clover, bur clover, white clover, 
alsike clover and orchard grass. 
Purity and germination standards. Seed with 
purity and germination lower than as listed in 
the regulations are considered low grade and not 
recommended for use in Tennessee. 
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3. 

TEXAS 
Law of 1941 
INFORMATION REQUIRED ON 
ANALYSIS TAGS OR CONTAINER 
(A) Agriculural Seeds. (Unmixed) Every 
lot. Use Texas tags. 
(1) Commonly accepted name of: 
a. Kind or 
b. Kind and variety or 
c. Kind and type. f ey 
) 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 seed. 
b. Hard seeds. 
c. Month and year of test. Test shall 
have been completed within a twelve 
month period, exclusive of month in 
which test was completed. 
Following a & b “Total germination & 
hard seed’’ may be given if desired. 
(8) Origin of alfalfa, red. clover and field 
corn. If origin is unknown, it must be 
so stated. 
(9) Name and address of person who labeled 
seed, or who sells, offers or exposes seed 
for sale. ‘ 
(10) Name and number of secondary noxious 
weeds per ounce in groups B1 & B2 and 
per pound in B3 & B4 if present singly 
or collectively in excess of: 
a. 1 in each 5 grams, 
(See page 106, group B.) 
b. 1 in each 10 grams. 
c. 1 in each 25 grams. 
d. 1 in each 100 grams. 
(B) Mixed Agricultural Seeds. Every lot. 
Use Texas tags. 
Same as unmixed seed, except that it must 
be called “MIXED” or a “MIXTURE” and 
the information required under items, 1, 3 
and 7 >-hall be given for each agricultural 
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 
standard last established by the Com- 
missioner of Agriculture. (See page 102 
for standards.) 
a. Percentage of germination, exclusive 
of hard seed. 
b. Percentage of hard seed. 
c. Month and year of test. Test shall 
have been completed within a twelve 
month period, exclusive of the month 
in which the test was completed. 
d. Marked “BELOW STANDARD” in 
not less than 8 point type. 
(3) Name and address of person who labeled 
seed, or who sells, offers or exposes seed 
for sale. 
Prohibits the sale, offering or exposing 
for sale of, 
A. Agricultural or vegetable seed contain- 
ing primary noxious weeds subject to 
tolerances. 
B. Agricultural or vegetable seed unless the 
test for germination shall have been 
completed within a twelve month period, 
exclusive of the month in which the test 
was completed. 
NOXIOUS WEEDS 
(A) Primary Noxious Weeds. 
PROHIBITS SEED CONTAINING ANY SUB- 
JECT TO TOLERANCES. 
Johnson grass—Andropogan halepensis 
Bindweed—Convolvulus spp. 
Blue Weed—Helianthus ciliaris 
Dodder—Cuscuta spp. 
(B) Secondary Noxious Weeds. 
Russian thistle—Salsola kali 
Wire grass—Paspalum distichum 
Bermuda grass—Cynodon dactylon 
Wild oats—Avena fatua 
Chess or cheat—Bromus secalinus 
Buckhorn plantain—-Plantago lanceolata 
Purple nightshade—Solanum elaeagnifolium 
Darnel—Lolium temulentum 
Wild mustard—Brassica sinapistrum 
Curly dock—Rumex crispus 
“STOP SALE” orders may be issued by the 
Commissioner of Agriculture for any lot of | 
agricultural or vegetable seed which he has 
reason to believe is in violation of any of the | 
provisions of this act which shall prohibit 
the further sale of said seed until the law 
has been complied with. The owner or cus- 
todian of said seed may appeal from such 
order to a court of competent jurisdiction 
where the seed is found, praying for a judg- 
ment as to the justification of said order and 
for the discharge from such order in accord- 
ance with the finding of the court. 
SEIZURE. 
Any lot of agricultural or vegetable seed not 
in compliance with the provisions of this act 
shall be subject to seizure on complaint of 
the Commissioner of Agriculture to a court 
of competent jurisdiction in the area in 
which the seed is located. In the event that 
the court finds the seeds to be in violation 
of the act and orders its condemnation, it 
shall be denatured. processed, destroyed, re- 
labeled or otherwise disposed of in compli- 
ance with the laws of the state. In no in- 
stance shall such disposition be ordered by 
the court without first having given the 
claimant an opportunity to apply to the court 
for its release or permission to process or 
relabel it to bring it into compliance with 
the act. 
HYBRID CORN. 
The first generation seed of a cross produced ! 
by controlling the pollination, and by com- | 
bining two, three or four inbred lines, or } 
by combining one inbred line or a single 
cross with an open-pollinated variety. Hy- 
brid designations shall be treated as variety 
names. 
SEED LABORATORY AND TESTS : 
State Seed Laboratory, Department of Agricul- i 
ture, Austin, Texas. a 
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