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( 1 ) The wheat in grade No. 1 shall be bright. 



(2) The wheat in grades Nos. 1 to 4, inclusive, shall be cool and sweet. 



( 3 ) The wheat in grade No. 5 shall be cool, but may be musty or slightly 

 sour. 



(4) The wheat in grade No. 1 Dark Northern Spring and grade No. 1 

 Northern Spring may contain not more than 5 per centum of the hard red 

 spring wheat variety Humpback. 



( 5 ) The wheat in grade No. 1 Amber Durum and grade No. 1 Durum may 

 contain not more than 5 per centum of the durum wheat variety Red Durum. 



( 6 ) For each of the subclasses of the class Durum, grade No. 1 and grade 

 No. 2, may contain not more than 2 per centum, and 5 per centum, respect- 

 ively, of soft red winter, common white, and white club wheat, either singly 

 or in any combination. 



( 7 ) For each of the subclasses of the classes. Hard Red Spring and Hard 

 Red Winter, grade No. 1 and grade No. 2, may contain not more than 2 

 per centum, and 5 per centum, respectively, of common white, white club, 

 and durum wheat, either singly or in any combination* 



(8) For each of the subclasses of the classes Soft Red Winter, Common 

 W T hite, and White Club, grade No. 1 and grade No. 2, may contain not more 

 than 2 per centum, and 3 per centum, respectively, of durum wheat. 



NOTE. For grades for Mixed wheat, Treated wheat, Garlicky wheat, 

 and Smutty wheat see sections Nos. 21, 22', 23, and 24, respectively, of the 

 official grain standards of the United States for wheat. 



The above tabulation does not constitute in whole the official grain stand- 

 ards of the United States for wheat. 



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 tihe 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 the method of use there- 

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

 States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry, or ascer- 

 tained by any device and method giving equivalent results. 



