MARKETING OF MAIZE 2 7^ 



custom well understood in many localities between seller and 

 buyer is sixty pounds per bushel. A large. portion of the maize 

 delivered to the country elevator is in the ear, where it is usu- 

 ally shelled before shipping. In most States the legal weight 

 per bushel of maize on the ear is seventy pounds, although it is 

 sixt}^-eight pounds in a number of States. In some localities, 

 custom requires that a larger number of pounds be given for 

 new maize until a given date, say eighty pounds per bushel 

 until December first. 



366. Commercial Grades. — The system of inspection for maize 

 is the same as that for wheat and other grains. As in wheat, 

 soundness, plumpness and mixture of foreign substances or of 

 maize of different color fix the grade. The weight of measured 

 bushels does not enter into the determination of the grade. The 

 Illinois Board of Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners recog- 

 nizes the following classes and grades : 



Yellow maize, Nos. i, 2 and 3. 

 White maize, Nos. i, 2 and 3. 

 Maize, Nos. i, 2, 3 and 4. 



Usually in the Chicago market, more maize is dealt in than 

 yellow and white combined, and much more yellow maize 

 than white maize. The grade of all classes of maize usually 

 dealt in is No. 3, No. 4 maize being much more common 

 than No. 2. The following are the rules for grading yellow 

 maize : 



No. I yellow maize shall be yellow, sound, dry, plump and well cleaned. 



No. 2 yellow maize shall be three-fourths yellow, dry, reasonably clean, but no' 

 plump enough for No. i. 



No. 3 yellow maize shall be three-fourths yellow, reasonably dry and reasonably 

 clean, but not sufficiently sound for No. 2. 



Rules for w^hite maize are identical with those for yellow, 

 except three-fourths reads seven-eighths. Under these rules, all 

 maize that is less than three-fourths yellow and at the same 

 time less than seven-eighths white is maize. 



