Show She Is the theof fir Dr Wiley of the tree Seed Seed- Mal Market kei I principle of or the tho pure food law T TIlE THE has been extended to seeds In Inthe Inthe inthe the state of Washington ton La Laws s shave have been passed pasted making it imperative e that seeds offered for sale shall be so labelled as to Indicate the percentage of or purity and tho the dealer who mixes Canadian blue grass with the simon almon pure lure Kentucky article or sweet clo clover or trefoil with red er clo or alfalfa will have o to pay heavy y penalties That farmers and dealers who pur- pur so cha-so seeds may know whether or not these laws laus hav have been complied with a woman has been assigned to test all aU samples of ot seed sent to her This noman woman wom nom an In is Js Miss 1 Louise M M. Allen J A. A M M. and her position with regard to seeds eds Is 18 a good deal like that of Dr Wiley with rC regard 3rd to food toad Miss Allen will test and report without without without with with- out expense on all aU samples sample sent b by farmers to the state department Dealers Deal Deni- Dealers ers however howe will have to pa pay a nominal nominal nominal nomi nomi- nal charge During June and July Miss Allen visIted visited vis- vis seed dealers in arlous various parts of tho state looking over o what they had hadIn hadIn hadin In stock and giving them suggestions for obtaining better grades for fall faU stock A per cent of ot all aU samples of al alfalfa alfalfa al- al falfa and red clover contained dodder This Is 18 ono one of the tho worst weed pests known mown It Is a parasite making making- no root structure of ot its own but sapping the tho strength as 88 nourishment from the plant upon which It grows Krows It spreads rapidly rapid and finally chokes out a cropIn crop In Oregon last year four forty per percent percent percent cent of all alfalfa samples pIes examined contained dodder Most red clover was contaminated by the pest I Tho The hope of tho the department established established established this summer Is Js to help holp the far tar mer moor to get better seeds and thus aid tHe tHo salesman to sell better seeds For Tor seed dealers tho department will make three to five lve tests per month at 50 GO cents per sample Thu The number allowed per month will have to be he limited to the tho amount of work on hand During the past week wok Mss Miss Allen AllenIs visited vis vis- visited a local seed dealer who had purchased purchased purchased pur pur- chased from an eastern firm twelve sacks of red clover s seed ell for early fall trade The Tho test showed that ho roe had bought from samples which contained a large largo per cent of dodder buckhorn and other weeds besides a number of large pieces of ot dirt Ills bogs bags of seeds were very much like the samples Ho He will either have to the seed or reship reship reship re- re ship it to the eastern firm at considerable considerable consider consider- able ahle loss Joss It would have ha been worth con considerable considerable consider consider- lder- lder able more than 50 cents to him to have known what he hes s as was buying |