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tion in grade, the Winnipeg Inspection office is notified 

 hy wire, and the Winnipeg grade after investigation may 

 be altered, 



A report of all cars unloaded at each terminal elevator 

 is made daily. The report shows the caiTying company, 

 the car number, the date, the Winnipeg sheet number, the 

 Fort William sheet number, the grade, the dockage, the 

 seal record, the condition of the car (damages, leaks, bulk- 

 heads, etc.), the load line, the inspection notations as to 

 grading, cleaning, etc., and the weighman's notation. 

 One copy of the report is supplied to the elevator, one is 

 sent to the Chief Inspector at Winnipeg, and one is re- 

 tained in the inspection office at Fort William. The grain 

 is taken into storage in the elevator just after unload- 

 ing and is binned with other grain of the same grade. 

 It is thus seen that the government keeps a most careful 

 record of all grain entering each terminal elevator.^' 



Wheat is not only graded into a terminal elevator but 

 it is also graded out again. " Grading the grain as it is 

 being loaded out of the elevators into the lake steamers," 

 says Magill, " presents some difficulties not experienced in 

 Winnipeg. It is easier to secure a fair average sample 

 of the grain in a standing car, than to secure one out of a 

 mass of grain rushing in several streams from a huge 

 elevator into a steamer. Further, the car sample in Win- 

 nipeg is graded in the central office and not in the rail- 

 way yard, but grain being loaded into a steamer must be 

 graded there and then. To sample the grain, send the 

 sample to a central office and grade it there, might mean 

 that the wrong grain would be loaded into the vessel, and 

 the steamer started off with grain different from that called 

 for by the shipper. To unload grain out of a vessel at Fort 

 William would be difficult, as there are no marine legs, 

 33 Vide R. Magill, loc. cit., p. 39. 



