The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-09-10
RULES FOR SEED GRADING,
NEW DIVISION FOR DEPART
MENT or AGRICULTURE.
Investigations Will BE Made By
state LabOratOry-AnnOun New
Standards.


Columbia, Sept. 6.--After consul.
tation with special committee OF
the South Carolina Cotton Seed
Crushers' association, Commissioner
watson yesterday announced that a
division OF cotton seed grading had
been established by the State depart
ment of agriculture. THE depart
ment is convinced Of the imperative
need Tor a proper system of grading
cotton seed sent to the markets for
the purpose of manpfacture into oil
meal and hulis," said the commission
er yesterday.
The operation of the division is to
be governed until further notice to
buyers and sellers under the rules and
regulations prescribed below as to
grades adopted, deductions for dam
ages, drawing of samples and exam
ination of samples.
Grade standards that have been
adopted have been agreed upon by the
department and the committee from
the association. and the association
upon its part has agreed to abide alb
solutely the reports as to grades fol-
lowing the examination of samples in
the laboratories of the department of
agriculture, commerce and industries.
The amount of deduction showing
on the report will be upon the basis
of the maximum price quoted for
prime seed on the day that the report
is mailed to the parties concerned in
the examination.
Grade Standards.
The following are the standards
adopted:
Prime cotton seed shall be clean,
dry, sound, free from dirt, trash anu
foreign matter.
Seed not coming up to the require
ments of prime seed" shall be con-
sidered "ofr seed"
Deduction.
Deductions will be made as follows:
No deduction shall be made for seed
damaged under per cent, seed dam
aged 10 per cent and not over Is per
cent. deduct 7 1-2 per cent. from
the cost price of same; seed damaged
16 per cent, and not over 20 per cent,
deduct Is per cent. from the cost
price of same; seed damaged 81 per
cent. and not over 25 per cent, deduct
20 per cent from the cost price of
came; seed DANCED 26 per cent. and
not over so per cent, deduct 90 per
cent. from the cost price Of same; il
seed go above 80 per cent. damaged
ones must sell by samples.
Drawing OF Samples.
The following are the rules an
nounced by the department..
Samples of seed must be drawn
from the wagon or from the car if
the goods are in carload lots, by the
sworn weigher at the mill, or by a
sworn town and county weigher, or in
the absence Of any of these by a repu-
table representative of the intending
and such drawing OF the
sample shall be in the presence OF
two representative farmers of the
people who are entirely
i'm the transaction, anu
whose names shall be signed to the
inspection slip submitted with the
sample. III 1t is impossible to get two
such farmers, then one such farmer
will be accepted as Il witness, and in
the absence of one such farmer, then
the sample must be drawn i'm the pres
ence Of at least two reputable mer-
chants of the community i'm which
the sample is drawn, who shall be dis
interested i'm the transaction. In
drawing the sample the party doing
so shall take from 10 different parts
of the lot 10 different samples of one
pound each, whether the lot be in car
or wagons and thoroughly mix each
of these samples so drawn into one
composite sample. lie shall then
take from such mixture at least on,
quart of the seed. place the same in
"a secure package, free from damp
ness and forward the sample address
cd To the commissioner of agriculture,
Columbia, s. G. Before closing the
package the party drawing thd sam
pie i'm this matter shall fill in all data
connected with the matter as re-
quircd by the form furnished to the
sampler by this department, and i'm
each instance see that the names Of
the witnesses are signed. This blank