The Bismarck tribune., 1925-02-13
INSPECTION OF
SEED MEASURE
IS RETAINED
House of Representatives In
dulges in Lively Discus
sion of Measure
PUT ON CALENDAR
House Kills Bill Giving State
Equal Number of Chal-
lenges TO Jury
PUT ON CALENDAR

The House of Representatives., in
session preceding Lincoln Day ex-
ercises, by vote Of 81 to Al in COM
mittee Of the whole, decided to re-
tain the seed certification work in
: the state. By recommending House
bill No. l25 to pass, the House
placed on the calendar for final ac-
lion today bill prescribing that
any person, firm Or corporation may
send samples Of seed to the State
Seed Commissioner, preparing trans
oortation charges, for testing, and
grower may obtain an examination
Of crop in the field for the purpose
Of having the seed produced known
as certified feed, free from disease
and good for termination purposes.
A schedule Of fees is provided.
The bill came up on an amend
ment by the agriculture committee,
which entirely rewrote the bill. Rep.
Vogel, chairman of the appropria-
tons committee, led the fight against
the measure. He told the House it
voted $4,000 for the state seed de-
partment few days ago and that
the amendment provided that fees
collected should go into the depart
ment,s funds. The original appro-
priation asked for the seed depart
meht of the Agricultural College
was $4,000, the same as for the
present biennium.
Fees In Bill
The fees provided in the amended
bill were virtually the same as being
charged now by the department and
paid voluntarily by persons using it,
according to Rep. Elken of the agri-
culture committee. New fees added
required a person desiring an expert
to visit field to certify seed to pay
an advance fee of $5, and to pay a
scale as follows: potatoes, corn,
wheat. rye, oats, barley, flax, millet
Or other small grains, one cent per
bushel; alfalfa, red clover, alsike,
one-haif cent per pound; bronze
grass, sweet clover, timothy, wheat
grass. and other grass seed, one
fourth of a cent a pound. Any per-
son sending more than ten samples
2 year to the seed laboratory would
pay so cents each over ten samples.
Rep. Starke of Stark county spoke
,mphatically for the bill
"The work of certifying seeds
must cease unless the department
is allowed to use the. fees and a
large measure of the value of the
department to the farmers would
De lost" said Rep. Starke.
Rep. Traynor of Ramsey county
declared the bill was sponsored by
all members of the agriculture COM
nittee, the majority of whom are
practical farmers.
Rep. Twichell, Cass county, de-
.lared the ccrtificaton was a small
,art Sof the seed testing work, and
hat a large part of it IS inspection
IF seed, a work instituted by DR..
add when president of the Agricul-
.ural- College, to protect seed sold
the state.
Rep. Hoople declared he knew
something of the work of testing
iced, especially with regard to pota-
oes, stating that potato grower
rilI get 25 to 35 bushels an acre
more of potatoes from certified seed,
rec from disease.
Must Cut, He Says
Rep. Vogel was insistent that the
ees should go into the general fund
md not into revolving fund for
he department as proposed, declar-
ng the old budget board had adopt
ID a policy Of having all fees turned
nto the general fund.
We must cut appropriations if
ve are going to cut taxes" he said.
| don't know how you are going to
over taxes unless you do. That's
Why I'm for cutting all these appro-
,riations'
Speaker Larkin supported Mr.. Vo-
:el.
Rep. Vogel also claimed that the
majority Of the farmer members of
'he. House had declared against the
work few days previous. A lively
interchange took place between Reps.
vogel and Starke. The latter who
IS a lawyer in Dickinson took ex-
.eptlon to statement that it was
he lawyers and city members of the
legislature who few days previous
saised the seed laboratory appropri-
stion from $4,000 to $4,000, although
he farmer members were against it
II deny that I am representing the
1ity people" said Rep. Starke Every
,:ember here was elected by votes
~ farmers, and l feel l am repre-
aenting them as much as the city
scOple am for this measure be-
f!ause I believe it is good thing for
she farmers, and therefore for the
itate as whole.
d On committee report the House
SSilIed a bill designed to give the
StateSs a number of challenges to a
sESury in a criminal equal to. the num-
Ger Of the defense.