APPENDIX III 



GRADES OF GRAIN 



Here are given grades of grain adopted by the United States Department 

 of Agriculture, Bureau of Markets, to go into effect July 15, 1918. Official 

 grades so far adopted only cover wheat, shelled corn, and oats. 



ORDER ESTABLISHING OFFICIAL GRAIN STANDARDS OF THE 

 UNITED STATES FOR WHEAT. 



Pursuant to the authority vested in the Secretary of Agriculture by the 

 United States grain standards Act, approved August 11, 1916 (39 U. S. 

 Statutes at Large, page 482), I, David F. Houston, Secretary of Agri- 

 culture, do hereby fix, .establish, promulgate, and give public notice of, 

 standards of quality and condition for wheat, as hereinafter described, 

 which shall become effective on the fifteenth day of July, nineteen hundred 

 and eighteen, and shall thereupon supersede the official grain standards of 

 the United States for wheat as promulgated by me under said Act on the 

 thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and seventeen: 



OFFICIAL GRAIN STANDARDS OF THE UNITED STATES FOR WHEAT. 



For the purposes of the official grain standards of the United States for 

 wheat : 



Section i Wheat. Airy grain which, when free from dockage, con- 

 tains more than ten per centum of grain of a kind or kinds other than wheat 

 shall not be classified as wheat. The term "wheat'' in these standards shall 

 not include emmer, spelt, and einkorn. 



Sec. 2 Basis of Determinations Each determination of dockage, 



moisture, temperature, odor, onions, garlic, and live weevils or other in- 

 sects injurious to stored grain shall be upon the basis of the grain including 

 dockage. All other determinations shall be upon the basis of the grain 

 when free from dockage. 



Sec. 3 Percentages. Percentages, except in the case of moisture, 

 shall be percentages ascertained by weight. 



Sec. 4 Percentage of Moisture. Percentage of moisture in wheat 

 shall be that ascertained by the moisture tester and the method of use 

 thereof described in Circular No. 72, and supplement thereto, issued by 

 the United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry, 

 or ascertained by any device and method giving equivalent results. 



Sec. 5 Test Weight Per Bushel .Test weight per bushel shall be 



the weight per Winchester bushel as determined by the testing apparatus 

 and the method of use thereof described in Bulletin No. 472, dated October 

 30, 1916, issued by the United States Department of Agriculture, or as de- 

 termined by any device and method giving equivalent results. 



Sec. 6 Dockage.- Dockage includes sand, dirt, weed seeds, weed 

 stems, chaff, straw, grain other than wheat, and any other foreign ma- 

 terial, which can be removed readily from the wheat by the use of ap- 

 propriate sieves, cleaning devices, or other practical means suited to 

 separate the foreign material present ; also undeveloped, shriveled, and 

 small pieces of wheat kernels removed in properly separating the foreign 



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