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

 determined by any device and method giving equivalent results. 



Note. Under rules and regulations pursuant to the United States 



grain standards Act, licensed inspectors will be required to state hi 



all certificates issued by them for oats the test weight per bushel in 



terms of whole and half pounds. For this purpose a fraction of a 



pound when equal to or greater than a half will be treated as a half, 



and when less than a half will be disregarded. 



Sec. 6 Foreign Material. Foreign material shall be all matter other 

 than grains and pieces of grains of cultivated oats, except other grains and 

 wild oats, and shall include oat clippings. 



Sec. 7 Other Grains. Other grains shall include wheat, corn, rye, 

 barley, emmer, spelt, einkorn, grain sorghums, rice, cultivated buckwheat, 

 and flaxseed, only. 



Sec. 8 Sound Cultivated Oats. Sound cultivated oats shall be all 

 grains and pieces of grains of cultivated oats which are not heat damaged, 

 sprouted, frosted, badly ground damaged, badly weather damaged, or other- 

 wise distinctly damaged. 



Sec. 9 Heat Damaged Grains. Heat damaged grains shall be grains 

 and pieces of grains of cultivated oats, other grains, or wild oats, which 

 have been distinctly discolored or damaged by external heat or as a result 

 of heating caused by fermentation. 



Sec. 10 Bleached Oats. Bleached oats shall be oats which in whole 

 or in part have been treated by the use of sulphurous acid or other bleaching 

 chemicals. Bleached oats shall be graded and designated according to the 

 grade requirements of the standards applicable to such oats if they were 

 not bleached, and there shall be added to, and made part of, such grade 

 designation the word " bleached." 



Sec. ii Clipped Oats. Clipped oats shall be oats which have the gen- 

 eral appearance of having had the ends removed by an oat clipper. Clipped 

 oats shall be graded and designated according to the grade requirements 

 of the standards applicable to such oats if they were not clipped, and 

 there shall be added to, and made a part of, such grade designation the 

 word " clipped." 



Sec. 12 Color Classification. All oats shall be designated in accord- 

 ance with section 13 hereof as white, red, gray, black, or mixed, according 

 to the color of the oats, as the case may be. For the purposes of this section 

 white oats include yellow oats. Oats shall be white, red, gray, or black, 

 respectively, when they consist of oats of such color, and not more than ten 

 per centum of other colors of cultivated wild oats, either singly or in 

 any combination. Mixed oats shall be all other oats. 



Sec. 13 Grades. All oats shall be graded and designated as No. 1, 

 No. 2, No. 3, No. 4, or Sample Grade, white, red, gray, black, or mixed, 

 as the case may be, according to the respective requirements thereof as 

 specified in this section, except that in the case of mixed oats the require- 

 ments as to the maximum percentages of other colors shall be disregarded. 



No. 1. 



(a) shall be cool and sweet and of good color, except in the case of 

 No. 1 white shall be of good white or creamy white color ; 



'(6) shall have a test weight per bushel of at least thirty-two pounds; 



(c) shall contain not less than ninety-eight per centum of sound culti 

 vated oats; 



(d) may contain not more than two per centum of matter other than 



Effective on the sixteenth day of June, nineteen hundred and nineteen. 



