THlv ORCANIZATION OF THIC SAMriJv TKADK IN (".R.\IN IN MINNKSOTA 5() 



department maintains a staff which samples every carload of grain passing 

 this point (i). 



Racli State inspection staff consists of a sealer, an inspector and samplers. 

 These men do their work as early in the morning as possible. First the 

 sealer notes the car numbers, records the seals, breaks the seals and opens 

 the car doors. Much emphasis is laid on keeping correct records of seals. 

 The sealer notes any defects he may find in the condition of a car, especially 

 leakage. He is followed by the sampler and inspector. The sampler works 

 under special instructions and is particularly warned to watch for cars loaded 

 with intent to get concealed grain of low grade past the inspector. Each 

 car is probed at least seven times. The samples taken at the several pro- 

 bings are mixed on a cloth at the doorway and placed in a bag holding about 

 three pounds. After the State sampler has left the car the Chamber of 

 Conmferce samplers enter it and take samples, but the two groups are under 

 strict instructions not to perform this dut}' at the same time. The Cham- 

 ber of Commerce samplers may not break the seal of a car. The car doors are 

 closed and sealed by the State sealer who broke the seals and who keeps a 

 careful record of them. The State samples are placed in locked boxes, each 

 containing fifty of them, are loaded on express trains and are sent to the In- 

 spection Department at Minneapolis. The box in which they arrive is 

 left at the station and sent back to the sampling station, while the samples 

 are taken from the trains to the inspection office by State employees. All 

 such of them as are delivered before seven o'clock in the morning are in- 

 spected at once. The inspectors have no knowledge of the ownership of 

 the grain. Every sample of wheat is sifted to determine the amount of 

 foreign matter or dockage it contains, and the latter is expressed rather in 

 pounds per bushel than as a percentage as at Winnipeg. As soon as they 

 are graded the samples are returned to the sacks with the dockage, and the 

 grades are entered, with the reasons for assigning them, on the tickets signed 

 by the inspector. A complete record is kept of each ticket. The samples 

 are kept for thirty-six hours or longer, in order that there may be ample time 

 for reinspection and appeal, and the sample sacks are then sold, the profits 

 going to the State Inspection fund. 



B) The Work of the Chamber of Commerce. 



The Chamber of Commerce samples are sent by the same express trains 

 as the others to the various trains to which the cars are consigned, the samp- 

 ling bureau having secured a list of the cars and their destinations. Both 

 lots of samples arrive ahead of the cars of grain. On the large trading 

 floor of the Miimeapolis Chamber of Commerce there are tables, on which 

 the samples received from the Chamber's sampling bureau are displayed 

 in small tin pans. The samples have previously been examined by the ex- 



(i) Only the grain originating between these points and Minneapolis or Duluth is sampled 

 at the markets in tFie latter places. 



