Nov. 2, 1920.] Agricultural Gazette of N.S.W. 17 i 



Grading New South Wales Wheats* 



The Proposed Standards. 



E. HARRIS, Executive Member and Secretary, Wheat Grading Committee. 



With the change from handling wheat in sacks to handhng it in bulk, the 

 necessity arises of introducing a proper method of gradmg wheat on class, 

 quality and condition, such as is done in other great wheat-producing countries. 

 In the July, 1919, issue of the Agricultural Gazette, under the head of 

 " Wheat Grading in America,'" the writer described the classifications and 

 methods in operation in Canada and the United States. For the purpose of 

 carrying out the preliminary investigations and advising the Government, 

 the following have been appointed as a Wheat Grading Committee: — Messrs. 

 Geo. Valder, T. Wise, F. A Crago, M. McLeod, A. K. Trethowan, F. J. 

 Wallis, G. W. Walker, J. S. Cameron, W. A. McRitchie, E. Field, J. Fitz- 

 patrick, and E. Harris. 



At the last meeting of this committee the writer proposed certain standards 

 of grading as a basis for discussion, and this proposal is being put before 

 various interests concerned by members of the committee. Details of these 

 proposed standards are now published for the purpofee of inviting criticism 

 and suggestions from farmers and others interested. They are as follows : — 



Class 1. Australian Hard Red Wheat. — This class to include wheat of 

 varieties Cedar and Marquis, 



Class 2. Australian Hard White Wheat. — This class to include wheat of 

 varieties Comeback, Bobs, and Hard Federation. 



Class 3. Australian White Wheat.— This class to include wheat of varieties 

 John Brown, Haynes' Blue Stem, Florence, Rymer, Bunyip, Marshall's No. 3, 

 Sunset, Thew, Purple Straw, Zealand, Yandilla King, Bomen, Firbank, 

 Cleveland, Federation, Steinwedel, and Warren. 



There are, no doubt, other varieties of wheat containing similar 

 characteristics to the foregoing ; each of these would have to be included in 

 the class to which it belonged. Each of these classes is divisible into five 

 grades, and the No. 1 gi-ade is so arranged as to int-lude wheat which would 

 come within the fair average quality grade that has obtained during the 

 past ten years. Following are the requirements of each grade : — 



Premium Al. — Minimum test weight per bushel, 65 lb. ; maximum moisture 

 content, 12-5 per cent.; maximum percentage of damaged kernels, 2 per cent. 



Premium 5.— Minimum test weight per bushel, 63 lb. ; maximum moisture 

 content, 13 per cent. ; maximum percentage of damaged kernels, 2 per cent. 



No. 1 6rra(?e.— Minimum test weight per bushel, 601b. ; maximum moisture 

 content, 13 per cent. ; maximum percentage of. damaged kernels, 3 per cent. 



