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CHAPTER 300 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED NINETY- FOUR, PUBLIC LAWS OF ONE THOUSAND NINE HUN- DRED AND TWENTY-NINE, KNOWN AS THE PURE SEED LAW. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That section eighteen of the above chapter be amended by adding at the end thereof the following: Provided further, that no farmer residing in North Carolina shall be required to procure a State seed license to sell seeds raised on his own farm. That all of section nineteen of the above chapter be stricken out and the following substituted in lieu thereof: Sec. 19 That the word approximate as used in this Act shall be interpreted as follows: For purity guarantees the tolerance allowed shall be twotenths of one per cent, plus twenty per cent of the lesser part of the sample. That is to say, a sample is considered as being made up of two parts, the Pure Seed (meaning the seed or seeds named on the label), and the balance of the sample (other agricultural seeds. weed seeds and inert matter). For example. if a purity of ninety-eight per cent -98.00% is claimed, the sample may test as low as ninety-seven and forty one-hundredth per cent -97.40% and not be deemed mis-labeled; if a purity of eightytwo and twenty one-hundredth per cent -82.20% is claimed, the sample may test as low as seventy-eight and forty-four onehundredth per cent -78.44% and not be deemed mis-labeled. For germination guarantees the following tolerance scale shall be allowed: Guarantee (%) Allowable Variation (%) OOM OT AD OV Caen aac stersecc eocees aS Soe a eee seater 6 S80 or above, but less than 90..................-. 7 70 or above, but less than 80.................-- 8 60 or above, but less than 70..............-----. 9 OSS Chan GO ssccc. sissies ce set gals hace boca ndens fetetecs 10