AMERICAN EXPORT CORN (mAIZe) IN EUROPE. 



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THE C0R;>^ examined IN EI^ROPE GRADED ACCORDING TO GRADE 

 MOISTURE LIMITS OF THE GRAIN DEALERS' NATIONAL ASSOCIATION. 



The Grain Dealers' National Association at its annual convention 

 held at St. Louis, Mo., in October, 1908, adopted rules and specifi- 

 cations for commercial grain grades and recommended tliat they be 

 adopted for general use in the grain business. These rules limited 

 the percentages of moisture to be allowed in the different grades of 

 corn as follows: "No. 1 Corn," 15 per cent; "No. 2 Corn," 16 per 

 cent; "No. 3 Corn," 19 per cent; and "No. 4 Corn," 22 per cent, 

 these grades to include cool corn only. 



Table X shows the corn examined arranged in grades according to 

 its moisture content as tested in Europe and according to the limits 

 of moisture fixed for each grade by the association rules. From 

 this table it will be seen that according to those rules 2,815,795 

 bushels, or 18.7 per cent, of the corn examined and that was shipped 

 as "No. 2" or equivalent grades would have been graded "No. 2" 

 or better; that 7,528,941 bushels, or 50.1 per cent, would have been 

 graded "No. 3;" that 2,796,058 bushels, or 18.6 per cent, would 

 have been graded "No. 4;" and that 1,885,641 bushels, or 12.7 per 

 cent, would have been graded "Sample," on account of being heating 

 or hot. Had the heating or hot corn in the shipments arrived cool 

 it would have been classed among the other grades, as in that case 

 it is believed none of the corn would have shown moisture contents 

 of more than 20.6 per cent, the highest percentage of moisture found 

 in any of the cool corn. 



Table X. — American corn certificated as "No. 2" or equivalent grades examined in 

 Europe a arranged in grades according to the moisture limits of the rules adopted by the 

 Grain Dealers' National Association at St. Louis, Mo., in October, 1908. 



a Cargoes Nos. 33 and 34 not included. 



i> The numlier of cargoes in wliich the different grades were represented. 



c Includes only corn found heating or liol. 



ARTIFICIALLY DRIED CORN. 



Several cargoes that had been shipped as " artificiall}' dried " corn 



were examined. This corn was certificated as No. 2 or equivalent 



grades and the data relating thereto are included in the tables 



and diagrams. Various terms in addition to the grades were used in 



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