OATS, BARLEY, RYE, ETC. 3<DI 



BARLEY 



No. i barley shall be plump, bright, clean, and free from other 

 grain. 



No. 2 barley shall be sound, of healthy color, not plump enough 

 for No. i, reasonably clean and reasonably free from other grain. 



No. 3 barley shall include all slightly shrunken and otherwise 

 slightly damaged barley, not good enough for No. 2. 



No. 4 barley shall include all barley fit for malting purposes, not 

 good enough for No 3. 



No. 5 barley shall include all barley which is badly damaged or 

 for any cause unfit for malting purposes, except that barley which 

 has been chemically treated shall not be graded at all. 



No grade barley : All barley that is in a heating condition, 

 too musty or too damp to be safe for warehousing, or that is badly 

 damaged and exceedingly dirty, shall be classed as no grade 

 barley. 



FLAXSEED 



No. i northwestern flaxseed shall be mature, sound, dry, and 

 sweet. It shall be northern grown. The maximum quantity of 

 field, stack, storage, or other damaged seed intermixed shall no^ 

 exceed 12.5 per cent. The minimum weight shall be 51 pounds to 

 the measured bushel of commercially pure seed. 



No. i flaxseed shall be nothern grown, sound, dry, and free from 

 mustiness, and carrying not more than 25 per cent, of immature or 

 field, stack, storage, or other damaged flaxseed, and weighing not 

 less than 50 pounds to the measured bushel of commercially pure 

 seed. 



Rejected flaxseed : That which is bin-burnt, immature, field- 

 damaged or musty, and yet not to degree to be unfit for storage, 

 and having a test weight of not less than 47 pounds to the meas- 

 ured bushel of commercially pure seed shall be rejected. 



No grade flaxseed : That which is damp, warm, moldy, very 

 musty, or otherwise unfit for storage, or having a weight of less 

 than 47 pounds to the measured bushel of commercially pure seed 

 shall be no grade. 



(These rules are subject to change from year to year.) 



