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oats shall be graded and designated according- to the grade requirements of 

 the standards applicable to suck 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 and 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 requirements 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 which 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 

 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. -1. 



(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 



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

 moisture. 



No. :{. 



(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 



