The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1914-01-30

n NY farmer engaged in producing
IN agricultural crops within the
= e. State of Washington may, by
application to the Director of the
State Agricultural Experiment Station,
State College, Pullman, Washington,
secure an official authorization of
the yield and quality of any particular
crop grown by him, upon the follow
ing conditions:
% The purpose for which the Of
ficial Authorization is desired may
be either one or both of the following:
(a) to show the possibilities of agri-
cultural production in the locality
where the crop is grown, and the con-
ditions essential to successful crop
production; OBJ to show the value of
the crop thus officially tested for seed
or other propagation purposes.
CD The location and area of the
crop to be tested must be such that
1t will be possible to measure from it
q rectangular tract of not less than
the following area: for cereal crops,
tested for either of the purposes men
toned above, twenty acres; for for
age crops, tested for yield, ten acres;
for fruit crops, tested either for yield
(3) Supervisors for official tests
of agricultural crops shall be instruct
ed in methods of conducting the tests
by the Departments of Agriculture
and Horticulture of the State College
of Washington. Upon application for
official authorization of any particu-
lar crop, the Director of the Agricul-
tural Experiment Station shall desig-
nate an official supervisor for that
purpose. The findings of this super
visor shall be approved by the director
and when so approved shall consti-
tute the official authorization for the
yield and quality of the crop.
ca The expense of making the
official test of the crop by the super
visitor shall be borne by the owner of
the crop, and shall include the neces-
sary travelling expenses of the super
visitor for distance of not to exceed
$50 miles and return, his expenses
when engaged in making the test and
per diem of not to exceed $3.50 for
each day spent in travelling and in
supervising the harvesting of the crop.
60 The supervisor shall measure
the tract to be tested Immediately pre-
ceding the harvesting of the crop from
1t and shall be continuously in charge
of the crop until it is harvested, and
shall weigh or measure Cor supervise
the weighing or measurement of the
CROP and shall officially score the
product If the latter is to be used for
seed or propagation purposes.
co The score of the product shall
be upon a regular score card for the
particular crop, prepared by the De-
partments of Agriculture and Horti-
culture of the State College.
CD The report of the official test
shall be made by the supervisor in du-
plicate. One copy shall be supplied
to the owner of the tract and the sec
ond filed in the office of the Director
of the State Agricultural Experiment
Station. The report shall contain:
First, the owners statement, which
shall include the name of the owner,
his postoffice address, his trading
center, the exact location of the tract,
the history of the cropping of the
tract for the preceding five years and
an account of the method of prepara-
ton, seeding and cultivation of the
crop, which statement shall be sub
scribed and sworn to before a notary
public or similar official; the official
supervisors statement, which shall in
clude the rainfall record for the local
ity as obtained from the nearest
weather observer, the variety of the
crop, the measurements of the tract,
the total weight of crop harvested, the
computed yield per acre and the Off
cial score of quality of product (ac-
companied by the score card COM