Excerpt from Testing Farm Seeds in Home and School The popular agitation within recent years in the interest of better seed has brought about. A marked change in trade conditions, but much room for improvement still remains. Most States now have laws regulating the sale of agricultural seeds. The common feature in these laws requires agricultural seeds to be labeled to show the various elements of quality, such as purity, germination, chaff, and weed-seed content. The Federal Seed Act 3 sets up limits of quality that seed subject to the act must meet before it is permitted entry into the United States. This act also requires labeling and prohibits misrepresentation of seeds in interstate commerce. Although both Federal and State laws regulating the sale of agricultural seeds give valuable protection to the farmer it is also important that he be able to judge for himself the general quality of the seed offered him as well as that of seed produced for his own use on the farm. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.