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THE HOOK ROOM WHERE SAMPLES ARE HUNG AFTER BEING GRADED 

 (Illinois Inspection Department) 



Tile sam]jles are liung on numbered liooks anil left here twenty-four hour^, or until after the 

 time has expired In which sldpiter or buyer may ask re-inspcctiun. Tlic sample is then dumpud. 

 (Picture taken by Robert II. Moulton.) 



Grain Grades and Inspection/'' The Avork of grain inspection in 

 Chicago now requires more than a hundred men ni the State Grain 

 Inspection Department alone. Besides this the Bnard of Trade has 

 a special inspection department. 



The Chief Inspector of the State Department is appointed by the 

 governor with the approval of the State Senate. It is required that he 

 shall not be a member of the Board of Trade, or interested either 

 directly or indirectly in any warehouse in the state. He must take 

 oath and furnish bond in the penal sum of fifty thousand dollars. His 

 term of office is two years. 



The Chief Inspector, with the approval of the Board of Commis- 

 sioners of Railroads and Warehouses, has authority to appoint deputy 

 inspectors and assistants. All deputy mspectors are required to fur- 

 nish bond, pass Civil Service examination, and be neither directly nor 

 indirectly interested in any warehouse in the state, nor connected with 

 the Board of Trade. 



•Annual Report ot Illinois drain Insjicction Department. 



