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shall know the purity and viability of the seeds he buys. Our A
inspections show that seedsmen are often careless in labeling  T
stock they have in storage and which they claim, when samples Q t`
are taken, is held for the purpose of cleaning. The law rc·  .
quires that these seeds must be marked "not clean." During  
the year, the following analyses have been made:  j
Samples submitted by farmers and dealers and  I
tested for purity ..........»...»..,l.....,.................................................. 1,792  
Samples collected by us and tested for purity ...... 400 , 3
During the same period a total of 4,179 germination tests  . G
were made, giving a total for the year of 6,371 tests of all sorts. I &
This is an increase of 1,-166 analyses over the year 1920, when 2 l
a total of 1,905 tests were made. _ T
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The tobacco seed cleaned and graded for growers num- T .
‘ bered 25231 lots and included three hundred and seventiy-four   Y
and a half pounds.  T {
Public Service Laboratories. For the period covered by ·
A this report, 25,620 specimens have been examined in the public  ,
  service laboratories, of which number 11,82-1 were for the \Vas-
g sermann test. ··
  ln the food laboratory, 818 samples of foods and miseel-  ·
T laneons materials were examined. Of these, 151 were official  ·
; samples submitted by authorized inspectors of the State Board  T
. of Ilealth, the remainder consisting of miscellaneous foods,
` etc., submitted by citizens of the state.
The drug samples examined numbered 202, consisting ot _
· 1l9 official samples, of which only 7 can be considered as T
pharmaeenticals, the remainder being of a "patent" or pro- T
prietary nature. In addition to this, SI2 unotficial samples of a  _
highly miscellaneous nature were examined.  ·