CEREALS IN COMMERCE 



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White and Red Winter wheats are those of the eastern, 

 southern, and central districts. Common and White 

 Spring are spring wheats, other than northern, east of 

 the Pacific Coast districts. Pacific Coast or western 

 wheats are either winter or spring, and grown in Pacific 

 Coast districts or in the Columbia River Basin and 

 Montana. At Chicago there is a separate class of hard 

 winter wheat, coming chiefly from Montana. There is 

 a definite class of yellow oats, recognized even com- 

 mercially, but it is simply stated that it " shall not be 

 graded better than No. 3 white oats." Purified white 

 oats is that which has been chemically treated. Mixed 

 oats includes oats of various colors. Clipped oats differs 

 from others only in having been run through a machine 

 which clips off the sharp ends of the kernels and other- 

 wise improves their appearance, making them weigh 

 more and grade higher. Winter barley appears to in- 

 clude those varieties of common, nodding, six-row barley 

 that are winter hardy, and which in other respects differ 

 little or not at all, agronomically, from the class of com- 



