SEED CERTIFICATION.

New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 43, Issue 3, 21 September 1931, Page 230

SEED CERTIFICATION.

SCALES OF CHARGES BEING ADOPTED.

It has been decided that, commencing with the 1931-32 season, charges will be made in connection with the seed certification scheme conducted by the Department of Agriculture, as follows : (Note : The term “ line ” when used in connection with the machine-dressing charges refers to all that lot of seed covered by any one purity and germination certificate.) A. Scale of Charges. 1. Grass and Clover Seed. (a) Rye-grass and Cocksfoot : (i) Entrance fee : 10s., payable with application. (ii) Excess-area, fee : The entrance fee covers the first 10 acres. An excessarea fee of is. must be paid for each acre in excess of 10 acres ; payable before paddock-sealing is undertaken. (iii) Machine-dressing fee : per bushel or part bushel of machine-dressed seed. The charge thus made on any one line must not be less than the amount computed at the rate of 6d. per sack or part sack. (b) White Clover : (i) Entrance fee : As in rye-grass and cocksfoot. (ii) Excess-area fee : As in rye-grass and cocksfoot. (iii) Machine-dressing fee : id. per 10 lb. or part thereof of machine-dressed seed. The charge thus made on any one line must not be less than the amount computed at the rate of 6d. per sack or part sack. (c) Brown-top:— (i) Entrance fee : As in rye-grass and cocksfoot. (ii) Excess-area fee : The entrance fee covers the first 200 acres. An excess-area fee of is. must be paid for each 100 acres (or part thereof) in excess of 200 acres; payable before paddock-sealing, is undertaken. (iii) Machine-dressing fee : As in white clover. 2. Wheat. (i) Entrance fee : As in rye-grass and cocksfoot. (ii) Excess-area fee : As in rye-grass and cocksfoot ; payable before or when forwarding unofficial grain sample. Should the line be rejected on this sample, a refund of the excess-area fee will be made. (iii) Machine-dressing fee : |d. per bushel or part bushel.. 3. Beans. (i) Entrance fee : As in rye-grass and cocksfoot. (ii) Excess-area fee: The entrance fee covers the first 5 acres. An excessareafee of is. must be paid for each acre in excess of 5 acres. (iii) Machine-dressing fee: 2d. per bushel or part bushel. 4. Potatoes. • ■ . (i) Entrance fee : As in rye-grass and cocksfoot. (ii) Inspection fee : 10s. payable before 15th December, otherwise no inspection of crop will be made. • (iii) Excess-area inspection fee: The inspection fee covers the first 5 acres. An excess-area, fee of 2s. 6d. must be paid for each acre in excess of 5 acres. Payable with inspection fee. In every case, whenever a fee is due, no further action will be taken by the Department until such fee is paid. B. General Conditions. 1. The entrance fee for any crop covers all entries of that crop made by any one grower on the one farm. The acreage for the purposes of charging is taken as the total acreage entered by one grower on one farm, irrespective of whether this is in one or more paddocks. •

COLLECTION OF FEES.

2. (a) The grower. is responsible for the payment of all certification fees except the machine-dressing fees, which are payable by the merchant doing the machinedressing. ; (b) (i) Entrance fees are payable with application for certification; (ii) Excess-area fees are payable before paddock-sealing (except in wheat, where it is payable when forwarding unofficial grain sample). (iii) Inspection fee and excess-area inspection fee (for potatoes) are payable before the field inspection is undertaken. (iv) The machine-dressing fees are payable by the merchant doing machinedressing and monthly accounts will be sent out. 3. (a) If neither field-inspection nor paddock-sealing is necessary, only the entrance fee is payable, and no excess-area fee will be charged. (&) If either field-inspection or paddock-sealing is necessary (or if both are necessary), then both entrance fee and excess-area fee are payable. 4. (a) If a grower enters more than one kind of seed for certification, then on each kind the charges will be computed separately, except as in (&) and (c) below. (fe) In the case of two kinds of seed being harvested together e.g., white clover (eligible for certification) separated from certified rye-grass at threshing-time—-the field charges on the rye-grass also cover the white clover, and only machinedressing fees will be payable. (c) In the case of seeds dressed out at machine-dressing and being eligible for certification white clover dressed out of certified rye-grass—only machinedressing charges for the white clover are payable. (d) If an area is rejected at field inspection, no excess-area fee is payable except in the case of potatoes, where the excess-area fee covers part of the cost of making the inspection.

' .r: MACHINE-DRESSING CHARGES FOR BLENDING AND REDRESSING. 5. (a) Charges for sealing and tagging will be made at the time when a sample is drawn for the purity and germination certificate, except that no . charge will be made for resampling sealed sacks for the purpose of a fresh purity and germination certificate. (&) A charge will therefore 'be made at standard rates for resealing and retagging certified seed which is opened for the purpose of redressing or blending, and for which a fresh sample must necessarily be drawn for a purity and germination certificate. (c) There will be no charge made for the sealing of machine-dressed seed which is being held temporarily with the object of blending (as may often occur in the case of brown-top) until such time as the blended seed is finally sealed and tagged and sampled for a purity and germination certificate. r-- ~ ,-.••• r - x - 0 —Fields Division.