APPENDIX III 495 



OFFICIAL GRAIN STANDARDS OF THE UNITED STATES FOR OATS 



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 asi 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. Teat 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 

 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 in 

 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 

 otherwise 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. Bleachea oats; shall be oats which in whole 

 or in part Ivave been treated by the use of sulphurous ucid 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 \vm> 

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

 designation tha 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 



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



