1628 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 698

such record shall be left with the dealer or such person with
whose knowledge said sample is obtained. On demand of the
dealer, or his representative, or at the discretion of the officer
concerned, the sample drawn shall be mixed as thoroughly as
possible and divided into two portions, one part to be left with
the dealer, or his representative. On demand of the dealer, or
his representative, any sample taken shall be paid for by the
inspection officer on a basis not exceeding the local market
price for the seed sampled.

107. A State Seed Laboratory shall be maintained by the
State Board of Agriculture, at which laboratory shall be filed

and recorded all the samples collected under the provisions of
this Act.. These samples, as far as possible, shall be analyzed
and the results published, together with the information given,
on the tags or labels, respectively, required by this Act. The
time and place of such publication shall be left to the discretion
of said Board or their authorized representative. At least ten
days before the publications of the analysis and record of any
sample which is below the standard represented by the tag or
label, a report shall be made to the vendor, and a duplicate of
said report shall be furnished also to the merchant or agent
whose name appeared on the tags or labels. The methods of
analysis used in the State Seed Laboratory shall be, as far as
possible, in accord with the rules and regulations adopted by
the Association of Official Seed Analysts of North America, or
the United States Department of Agriculture.

108. The word "approximate, " as used in this Act, shall be
interpreted to cover a variation at least as liberal as the toler-
ance approved by the Association of Official Seed Analysts of
North America; but the State Board of Agriculture, through
its authorized representative, may, at its discretion, increase the
tolerance thus to be allowed, and court prosecutions shall be

deemed unjustified when based upon differences. in analyses less
than the tolerance last officially approved and published, by the
State Seed Officer. The clause '' standard represented, '' as used
in Section 108 of this Act, shall carry the same tolerance of
variation as the word "approximate, " as defined above.

109. Any resident of Maryland desiring an analysis of seed may
submit a sample of the same to the State Seed Laboratory for
that purpose, for which service the laboratory will make no
charge; but the officer in charge of said laboratory may, as
necessity might justify, limit the number of samples that will
be analyzed for any one person or firm in a given time. If