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busy season every twenty-four hours. The work of sam- 

 pling, therefore, has to be carried out at all hours, by 

 night and day, both on Sundays and week days. An 

 accurate and detailed description of the manner in which 

 the samplers and graders carry out their work has been 

 given by Robert Magill, the Secretary of the Grain Ex- 

 change, and this will now be quoted. 



'' The samplers work together in gangs in shifts of 

 eight hours. They work in gangs because team work 

 is more efficient than solitary effort. Usually the gang 

 consists of fourteen men, four of whom are track foremen, 

 eight are samplers, one is a car opener and one a car 

 sealer. . . . The track foremen are responsible for the 

 efficiency of the work, each foreman usually looking after 

 two samplers. 



" On the arrival of the train, the conductor leaves the 

 car bills in the railway company's yard office. The train 

 clerk of the inspection department makes a list of these 

 bills, showing the car numbers, the name of the shipper, the 

 shipping station, the destination, and the name of the per- 

 son or company to whom the car is billed. These de- 

 tails are necessary for the issuing of the certificates. He 

 takes this list to the yard office of the inspection depart- 

 ment, and hands it to the clerk there. This clerk is also a 

 Government employee, and his work is to prepare the 

 sheets needed in the inspection office. These sheets are 

 two in number, a larger and a smaller. The larger sheet 

 shows all the details mentioned, and the smaller, a carbon 

 copy, only shows the car number and a column for the 

 grade. Both these sheets are sent to the inspection office 

 with the corresponding samples, but the larger sheet with 

 all the details is given to the clerical staff who issue the 

 certificates, while only the smaller sheet is given to the 

 inspectors who grade the grain. In this way all knowledge 



