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UNITED STATES GRADES FOR MILLED RICE. 

 Recommended by the United States Department of Agriculture. 1 



(August 1, 1922, adopted but not enforced under United States Grade 

 Standards Act ) . 



The following grades for the grading and marketing of milled rice 

 are recommended by the Bureau of Markets of the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. 



The classification in the standards is based on the length of whole 

 kernels for classes I, II, III, and IV, and on size of broken kernels for 

 classes V, VI, and VII. For the purposes of a general classification 

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

 has heretofore referred ,to the different varieties as long-grain, medium- 

 grain, and short-grain, and has used these terms in its publications dealing 

 with rice culture and production. At the hearings mentioned above, the 

 trade objected to the class name Medium as applied to the translucent type 

 of the variety known commercially as Early Prolific and the varieties 

 known commercially as Blue Rose and Louisiana Pearl, and to the class 

 name Medium-opaque as applied to the opaque type of the variety known 

 commercially as Early Prolific, for the reason that the word " medium " 

 is now used in commercial terminology as a grade name and denotes an 

 inferior grade of rice. It was suggested by the trade that the class name 

 Short be used to apply to the varieties known commercially as Blue Rose, 

 Louisiana Pearl, and Early Prolific, and that the class name Round be used 

 to apply to the varieties known commercially as Japan or Japanese, and 

 it is felt that they more nearly conform to commercial needs and should 

 be adopted. % 



These grades are not fixed and established under the United States 

 grain standards Act at this time, but it is hoped that they will be adopted 

 by all agencies engaged in the handling of milled rice. It is believed 

 that with the voluntary and general support of all interested parties these 

 standards will assist very materially in the marketing of milled rice. 

 (August 1, 1922). 



UNITED STATES GRADES FOB MILLED RICE. 



For the purposes of the United States grades for milled rice: 



Section i Milled Rice. Milled rice shall be whole or broken kernels 

 of rice grown in continental United States, from which the hulls, germs, 

 and practically all of the bran layers have been removed, which may be 

 either coated or uncoated, and which shall contain not more than ten 

 per centum of seeds, paddy grains, other cereal grains, and other foreign 

 material, either singly or in any combination. 



Sec. 2 Basis of Determinations. Each determination of paddy grains, 

 other cereal grains, seeds, other foreign material, heat-damaged kernels, 

 temperature, odor, live weevils or other insects injurious to stored rice, 

 color, coating, and moisture shall be made on the basis of the grain 

 including foreign material. All other determinations shall be made on 

 the basis of the grain when free from foreign material. 



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

 be percentages ascertained by weight. 



Sec. 4 Percentage of Moisture. Percentage of moisture shall be that 

 ascertained by the moisture tester and the method of use thereof described 



1 These standards embody the recommendations of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture, but are not fixed and established at this time under the United States grain 

 standards Act because of a lack of funds for their proper enforcement ae compulsory 

 standards. 



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