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sound cultivated oats, which two per centum may include not more than 

 one-tenth of one per centum of heat damaged grains; 



(e) may contain not more than four per centum of other colors of 

 cultivated and wild oats, either singly or in any combination, except in the 

 case of No. 1 white which may contain not more than two per centum; and 



(/) shall not contain more than fourteen and one-half per centum of 

 moisture. 



No. 2. 



(a) shall be cool and sweet, and may be slightly stained; 



( 6 ) shall have a test weight per bushel of at least twenty-nine pounds ; 



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

 vated oats; 



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

 sound cultivated oats, which five per centum may include not more than 

 three-tenths of one per centum of heat damaged grains, not more than two 

 per centum of foreign material, or not more than three per centum of 

 wild oats; 



(e) in the case of No. 2 white may contain not more than five per 

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

 combination; and 



(/) shall not contain more than fourteen and one-half per centum 

 of moisture. 



No. 3. 



(a) shall be cool and sweet and may be stained or slightly weathered; 



( b ) shall have a test weight per bushel of at least twenty-six pounds ; 



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

 vated oats; 



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

 sound cultivated oats, which ten per centum may include not more than 

 one per centum of heat damaged grains, not more than three per centum 

 of foreign material, or not more than five per centum of wild oats; and 



(e) shall not contain more than fourteen and one-half per centum 

 of moisture. 



No. 4. 



(a) shall be cool, and may be musty, weathered, or badly stained; 



( b ) shall have a test weight per bushel of at least twenty-three pounds ; 



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

 vated oats; 



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

 sound cultivated oats, which twenty per centum may include not more than 

 six per centum of heat damaged grains, not more than five per centum of 

 foreign material, or not more than ten per centum of wild oats; and 



(e) shall not contain more than sixteen per centum of moisture. 



SAMPLE GRADE. 



shall be oats which do not come within the requirements of any of the 

 grades from No. 1 to No. 4, inclusive, or which have any commercially 

 objectionable foreign odor, or are sour, heating, hot, infested with live 

 weevils or other insects injurious to stored grain, or are otherwise of dis- 

 tinctly low quality. 



Sec. 14 Food and Drugs Act. Nothing herein shall be construed as 

 authorizing the adulteration of oats by the addition of water, by the admix- 

 ture of clippings or hulls, decomposed salvage oats, other grains, or any 

 other foreign material, or otherwise, in violation of the Food and Drugs 

 Act of June 30, 1906. 



