Show government WANTS SEED county invited to sell some to the government the act ot congress making appropriations for the department of agriculture for the fiscal year ending june 30 1899 under the heading botanical investigations and experiments division of botany contains the following blanse the secretary of agriculture is hereby authorized to purchase of seed ia open market teat bame and when found not up to standard be may at bis publish the result ot these tests together with the namee of tho deeds man by whom the were sold the purchase of seeds for the tests authorized zed under this act will begin july it will be the aim of the department part ment ot agriculture in carrying out this law to put a atop to the sale of seeds eo poor as to make probable 9 positive injury and loas to the purchaser thus riving protection on the hand to the farmer and gardner and on the other band to thy honorable and seed dealer further information including a table of the etar darde of purity and germination and a list of the moat injurious likely to occur in commercial seed may be obtained from the department upon application |