624 



MAIZE 



CHAP, exported 31,700,000 muids (113,189,271 bushels); this re- 

 XI1 ' presented under 3 per cent of the crop of that year. 



581. American Maize Grades. — The rules recommended by 

 the Chief Grain Inspectors' National Association of the United 

 States of America classify maize-grain into three classes, viz. 

 " yellow corn," " white corn," and " mixed corn ". The follow- 

 ing are the rules : — 



No. 1. Yellow Corn shall be pure yellow corn, sound, 

 plump, dry, sweet, and clean. 



No. 2. Yellow Com shall be 95 per cent yellow corn, dry, 

 sweet, and reasonably clean, but not sufficiently sound or 

 plump for No. 1 Yellow. 



Table LXXXVI. 

 WORLD'S IMPORTS OF MAIZE (IN BUSHELS OF 56 LBS. 



1 Only Cape Colony and Transvaal before 1906. 



2 Preliminary. 



