APPENDIX III 495 



ORDER ESTABLISHING OFFICIAL GRAIN STANDARDS OF THE 

 UNITED STATES FOR SHELLED CORN 



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 Agricul- 

 ture, do hereby fix, establish, promulgate, and give public notice of, stand- 

 ards of quality and condition for shelled corn, 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 shelled corn as promulgated by me under said Act 

 on the first day of September, nineteen hundred and sixteen. 



OFFICIAL GRAIN STANDARDS OF THE UNITED STATES FOR SHELLED CORN. 



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

 shelled corn (maize) : 



Section i Corn. Corn shall be shell corn of the flint or dent varieties. 



Sec. 2 Basis of Determinations. Each determination of color, dam- 

 age, and heat damage shall be upon the basis of the grain after the removal 

 of foreign material and cracked corn as provided in section 6. All other 

 determinations shall be upon the basis of the grain including such foreign 

 material and cracked corn. 



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 corn shall 

 be that ascertained by the moisture tester and he method of use thereot 

 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 Foreign Material and Cracked Corn. Foreign material and 

 cracked corn shall be kernels and pieces of kernels of corn, and all matter 

 other than corn, which will pass through a metal sieve perforated with 

 round holes twelve sixty-fourths of an inch in diameter, and all matter 

 other than corn remaining on such sieve after screening. 



Sec. 7 Heat Damaged Kernels. Heat damaged kernels shall be kernels 

 and pieces of kernels of corn which have been distinctly discolored by 

 external heat or as a result of heating caused by fermentation. 



CLASSES OF SHELLED CORN. 



Sec. 8 Classes. Shelled corn shall be divided into three classes as 

 follows : 



WHITE CORX. 



This class shall consist of corn of which at least ninety-eight per centum 

 by weight of the kernels are white. A slight tinge of light straw color 

 or of pink on kernels of corn otherwise white shall not affect their classi- 

 fication as white corn. 



