GRADES OF WHEAT I29 



conveyed to another except by actual practice. The grades vary 

 in different markets to suit the supply and demand at each par- 

 ticular market. The classes and grades recognized by the Board 

 of Railroad and Warehouse commissioners for the inspection 

 of wheat at Chicago are as follows : 



White winter wheat Nos. i, 2, 3 and 4. 

 Long red winter wheat Nos. i and 2. 

 Red winter wheat Nos. r, 2, 3 and 4. 

 Hard winter wheat Nos. i, 2, 3 and 4. 

 Colorado wheat Nos. i, 2 and 3. 

 Northern spring wheat Nos. i and 2. 

 Spring wheat Nos. i, 2, 3 and 4. 

 White spring wheat Nos. i, 2, 3 and 4. 



Red winter wheat containing a mixture not exceeding five per 

 cent of white winter wheat is classed as red winter wheat. Red 

 winter wheat containing more than five per cent of white wheat 

 is graded according to the quality thereof and classed as white 

 winter wheat Hard winter wheat corresponds to red winter 

 wheat except that it is of- the Turkish variety common through- 

 out the Missouri River Valley. A mixture of Turkish wheat 

 with other varieties of red winter wheat is graded as hard 

 winter wheat. Northern spring wheat must contain at least fifty 

 per cent of hard varieties of spring wheat. A mixture of more 

 than five per cent of white spring wheat in red spring wheat will 

 cause it to be graded white spring wheat Black sea and flinty 

 fife wheat are in no case graded higher than No. 2 and rice 

 wheat no higher than No. 4. Frosted wheat is not graded higher 

 than No. 4 except that the grade of No. 3 may contain as much 

 frosted wheat as is customary to all wheat damaged in another 

 way. Only a small portion of the wheat of any sort grades 

 No. I. Most of the wheat dealt in grades No. 2 or No. 3. The 

 following are the rules for grading red winter wheat : 



" No. I Red Winter Wheat shall be pure Red Winter Wheat of both ligi t and 

 dark colors of the shorter berried varieties, sound, plump and well cleaned. 



« No. 2 Red Winter Wheat shall be Red Winter Wheat of both light and dark 

 colors, soimd and reasonably clean. 



