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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 ; 



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



(c) shall contain not less tha.n 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. 



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