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and fourth kilos deficiency 15 cents per kilo and for the 

 fifth kilo deficient 20 cents per kilo, so that wheat of 75 

 kilos per hectolitre, is chastised to the extent of 70 cents 

 the 100 kilos. 



In order to see how this clasificatiori works, let us 

 take for example a lot of a hundred kilos, half of which 

 is 78 kilos and the other 75. According to the customary 

 practice here 20 cents would be deducted per 100 kilos 

 on the first half, and 70 cents on the other,, or together 

 a. reduction 45 cents on the whole. The elevator mixes 

 them and presents a uniform type of 76% on which the 

 reduction cannot exceed 35 cents. Here the producer 

 has lost a peso per ton without any reason and the mono- 

 poly takes advantage of this without any right to do so. 

 On a harvest normally of 3% million tons this differ- 

 ence represents 3,500,000 pesos which the producer loses. 

 and which go to swell the exhorbitant gains of the Trust. 



Wheat which contains more than 3 per cent, of for- 

 eign matter is not received for exportation, and the pro- 

 ducer has to dispose of it at a considerable depreciation. 

 The elevator remedies this, cleaning it, as will as those 

 tots with frosted or damaged grains, and presents them 

 with good commercial quality. 



Oats : Sale conditions on a basis of specific weight 

 of 4f kilos to the hectolitre (37.66 Ibs per bushel) with 

 the right to deliver up to 43 kilos per hect. For the 

 first two kilos deficiency. 10 cents, per kilo; for the 

 third and fourth kilos 15 cents per kilo and a discount 

 of 1 per cent, for each percentage that exceeds the base 

 of ') to 5 per cent- of foreign matter. 



Mixed in the elevator it would come out at an aver- 

 age weight of 45 kilos and by the separation of foreign 

 matter freed of the heavy discounts which the scale im- 

 poses for such. 



Linseed : Sold on four per cent, basis foreign mat- 

 ter with tolerance up to 8 per cent., with corresponding 

 deductions. For from 8 to 10 per cent, of impurities a 

 reduction is made of one and a half per cent. Sacks 

 which contain more than 8 per cent, of foreign matters, 

 frosted or rotten grains, etc. are rejected altogether. In 

 years of poor quality crop, or of excessive rains, the 

 losses on the product are enormous, mounting up to a 

 difference of 3 to 4 pesos the 100 kilos. 



In the worst of cases the elevator would save an 

 average of 30 cents per kilo, that is to say, on a crop of 

 1,000,000 tons a gain of $3,000,000. 



Ma i7e : Sale is made: 1) Season dry; 2) New, with 

 a reduction of 75 cents per 100 kilos; 3) Tale quale, free 



