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APPENDIX III 



APPENDIX B. 



Section 9 of the official grain standards of the United States for shelled corn, 

 tabulated and abridged. (See Note.} 



Sample Grade* Shall be White corn, or Yellow corn, or Mixed corn, respectively, which 

 does not come within the requirements of any of the grades from No. 1 to No. 6, inclusive, 

 or which has any commercially objectionable foreign odor, or is heating, hot, infested with 

 live weevils or other insects injurious to stored grain, or is otherwise of distinctly low quality. 



( 1 ) The corn in grades Nos. 1 to 5, inclusive, shall be cool and sweet. 



(2) The corn in grade No. 6 shall be cool but may be musty or sour. 



(3) White corn shall be at least 98 per cent, white. 



(4) Yellow corn shall be at least 98 per cent, yellow. 



NOTE. The above tabulation does not constitute in whole the official 

 grain standards of the United States for shelled corn. 



OFFICIAL GRAIN STANDARDS OF THE UNITED STATES FOR OATS 3 



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

 for oats: 



Section i Oats. Oats shall be any grain which consists of cultivated 

 oats and not more than twenty-five per centum of foreign material, other 

 grains, and wild oats, either singly or in any combination. 



Sec. 2 Basis of Determinations. All determinations shall be upon 

 the basis of the lot of grain as a whole, including foreign material, other 

 grains, and wild oats. 



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 oats shall 

 be ascertained by the moisture tester and the method of use thereof de- 

 scribed in Circular No. 72, and supplement thereto, issued by the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry, except that 

 the graduated measuring cylinder used shall be that described in Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture Bulletin No. 56 ; or such percentage shall be ascertained 

 by any device and method giving equivalent results. 



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

 test weight per Winchester bushel as determined by the testing apparatus 

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



