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31 State Root Seed Testing Laboratory respectively. The last mentioned sample is sown in the spring in two or three different fields, and if a foreign purchaser during the autumn complains of the seed exported, the crop in the testing plots affords a valid proof of the quality of the seed sent by the seller to the dissatisfied purchaser during the spring. If an ami- cable arrangement is not arrived at and the case is brought before the courts, the experts appointed by the court will, on inspecting the roots grown from the seed sample concerned, be able to determine with absolute certainty whether the complaint made by the purchaser is justified or not, and if the seed does not fulfil to the contract, they will also be able to determine a fair of compensation to the purchaser. The Merchants’ Guild of Copenhagen has appointed an Examination and Arbitration Committee for the seed trade. The Committee comprises experts who, as unbiassed men, are capable of settling disputes between purchaser and seller. Of the seed mentioned under »A« large quantities of grass seeds are exported, viz: ordinary cocks foot grass, during the last year circa 2___3 million kg annually. Somewhat large quantities of fescue grass and Italian rye-grass, brome grass, and rough stalked meadow grass have likewise been exported. Of root seeds especially Swede, turnip and carrot seeds are exported. Some years a quantity of mangold seeds has been sold. Of recent years considerable qualities horticultural seeds have been exported for the most part cabbage, cauliflowers, Brussels sprouts, carrots, spinach, beets etc. During the last 20 years, the Experimental Agricultural Depart- ment of the Danish Government has caused competitive field tests to be held with Danish root-strains at the Government Experimental Stations in Jutland and on the islands. In order to have in business an easily recognizable trade-mark for those strains which have given the highest dry-stuff-yield per ha. according to the Government tests, a Roman numeral, indicating the number of the experimental period, has been added to the name of the strain. First- class strains from the experimental periods during the years 1900 to 1909, were marked with the Roman numerals: I, II and III, from the years of 1910 till 1919 with the Roman numerals: IV and V, and first class strains from the experimental periods of 1920 to 1929 will be marked with the Roman numerals: VI and VII. The Danish seed-growers are continually making endeavours to fur ther improve their strains. Therefore those strains which proved to be the best during the experimental periods from 1900 to 1909, are a