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four regular grades, and wheat may be of such 

 poor quality as to be graded "rejected" or "no 

 grade." 



INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION 



The rules for grading grain are fixed by boards 

 of grain inspectors in the several states where the 

 great markets are located. These rules are pub- 

 lished and may be secured from the chairmen of 

 said boards, or from almost any grain dealer. In all 

 the great markets there is a rigid system of grain 

 inspection and grain grading under state super- 

 vision and control which greatly facilitates the 

 movement of wheat and reduces fraud and unfair- 

 ness in the grain trade. State weighing depart- 

 ments have been established at the great terminals 

 in several states, by which all the wheat is now 

 officially weighed, and the cheating by false weigh- 

 ing which was formerly notorious has been prac- 

 tically done away with. 



LOCAL GRAIN INSPECTION 



There is much less organization and control 

 of the handling of grain at the local elevators 

 than at the terminals. The correctness of the 

 weighing and the grading, and the fairness of the 

 price of wheat at the local elevator depend largely 

 on local competition and on the honesty of the 

 grain dealer. As a rule, the local buyer is honest 

 in the weighing. Fraudulent weighing is very 

 much condemned by all grain dealers associations, 

 and usually competition compels the dealer to pay 

 all the market will allow. 



