224 THE BOOK Ofl WHEAT 



CHICAGO. 



White winter wheat, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4. 

 Long red winter wheat, Nos. 1 and 2. 

 Red winter wheat, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4. 

 Hard winter wheat, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4. 

 Colorado wheat, Nos. 1, 2 and 3. 

 Northern spring wheat, Nos. 1 and 2. 

 Spring wheat, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4. 

 White spring wheat, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4. 



NEW YORK. 



Winter wheat, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4. 



Red winter wheat, Nos. 1, 2, 3 an d 4. 



Mixed winter wheat, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4. 



Hard winter wheat, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4. 



Western wheat, Nos. 1 and 2. 



Spring wheat, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and No. 1 Northern. 



Macaroni wheat, Nos. 1, 2 and 3. 



The rules for grading red winter wheat in New York are as 

 follows : 



No. 1. Red winter wheat shall be sound, plump, dry, well 

 cleaned, and weigh not less than 60 Ibs. Winchester stanflard. 



No. 2. Red winter wheat shall be sound, dry and reasonably 

 clean, contain not more than 10 per cent of white winter wheat, 

 and weigh not less than 58 Ibs. Winchester standard. 



No. 3. Red winter wheat shall be sound, dry and reasonably 

 clean, contain not more than 10 per cent of white winter wheat, 

 and weigh not less than 56 % Ibs. Winchester standard. 



No. 4 Red winter wheat shall include all red winter wheat 

 not fit for a higher grade in consequence of being of poor quality, 

 damp, musty, dirty and weigh not less than 52 Ibs. Winchester 

 standard. 



The first wheat that was raised in the Red river valley grew 

 on a rich virgin soil that was free from weeds, and consequently 

 the grain was of high quality and quite free from foreign mat- 

 ter. As the soil became impoverished and weeds became more 

 prevalent, wheat deteriorated in quality and extraneous matter 

 increased. In the eighties, "No. 1 hard" was the contract 

 grade in the terminal markets, and for several years over one- 

 half of the wheat received at Duluth was of this grade. Later 

 the contract grade was reduced to No. 1 northern. Not 15 per 

 cent of the crop of 1898 which came to Minneapolis was good 

 enough for even this grade. Of 125,564 cars of wheat received 

 at the six terminal points of Minnesota during 1905, 109,160 

 contained northern spring wheat, 11,118 winter wheat, 3,391 

 western white wheat, and 1,557 western red wheat. Of 143,375 

 cars received during 1902, 139,857 contained northern spring, 

 2,909 winter, 516 red winter, 53 northern white, 21 white winter, 

 and 19 western white and red. The net average dockage was 



