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individual car-load is merged, as we have seen, in a bin 

 containing grain of the same grade; and thus the cost 

 of storage is lessened. It is highly important that the 

 car-loads should be deposited in their right bins according 

 to grade. 



The Winnipeg inspection governs the storage in the 

 terminal elevators except in the following cases: (1) cars 

 which were too full for proper sampling at Winnipeg, (2) 

 cars that have been " plugged," (3) cars that have gone out 

 of condition, (4) cars on which reinspection has been 

 asked, and (5) cars upon which an appeal to the Survey- 

 Board has been demanded. All these cars are sampled and 

 inspected whilst being unloaded. 



Every evening the Winnipeg inspection office dispatches 

 to Fort William by express train a sheet showing the car 

 numbers of inspected cars, the grade, the dockage, the in- 

 spector's notations, the shipping point, the destination, the 

 party to whom the car is billed, and the number of the in- 

 spector's certificate. As trains are broken up at Winni- 

 peg, or between Winnipeg and Fort William, a new 

 train sheet is made out at Fort William. This sheet is 

 made from the car bills and from the Winnipeg sheet, 

 and it shows the Winnipeg sheet number, the grade and 

 notations, the elevator to which the car is sent, and the 

 shipping point.^^ 



At Fort William a grade ticket is then made out for 

 each car and nailed to the car. As the grain is pouring 

 out from the car during unloading, an inspector takes 

 samples at intervals with a ladle, mixes up the grain thus 

 taken, and then decides whether or not the grade is the 

 same as that on the grade ticket. Usually the grades, 

 when thus checked over, are confirmed. Very exception- 

 ally they are found to be different. In case of any altera- 

 32 Vide R. Magill, loc. cit., p. 35. 



