286 CORN 



"We have not attempted in any way in these grades to prohibit 

 mixing, providing the mixing is legitimate and on the grade. In fact, 

 we have made these grades intentionally so that mixing can be done. 

 That is the reason why we fixed the limit on damage in these rules- 

 No. 2 corn at 4 per cent. No. 3 corn at 6 per cent, and No. 4 corn, 8 

 per cent. Now, if you have two cars or, we will say, one car of No. 2 

 and one car of No. 4, with a maximum percentage of damage, you can 

 mix these two cars and get two cars of No. 3. Of course, the chances 

 are that you would have two cars that would have the maximum that 

 you would want to mix. But we don't admit, and we don't believe, 

 that you should be allowed to mix these two cars, and get two cars of 

 No. 2, although I admit that in some cases under these grades it can 

 be done and done legitimately, if you have a high No. 2 and a high 

 No. 4 car, or especially if you have a high No. 2 and a high No. 3. But 

 I don't believ.e you ought to be allowed to mix any damaged or sour 

 corn and expect to have the thing graded as No. 2 corn. When a man 

 buys No. 2 corn, he expects No. 2 corn, and he ought to get it." 



RECEIPT OF CORN IN CHICAGO BY GRADES. 



The following shows the number, of carloads of corn of the differ- 

 ent grades shipped to Chicago from the crop of 1914, and the percent- 

 age of each grade received. It will be well to remember that this crop 

 was unusually well matured. 



TABLE NO. 65 



RECEIPT OF CORN BY GRADES— CHICAGO, 1914 



Per cent No. 1 corn received 1.2 



Per cent No. 2 corn received 26.0 



Per cent No. 3 corn received 40.0 



Per cent No. 4 corn received 24.0 



Per cent No. 5 corn received 2.S 



Per cent No. 6 corn received 2.8 



Per cent S. G. (Sample Grade) corn received 3.5 



Approximately seventy-five per cent of the corn received in Chica- 

 go was of Number 3 grade or poorer. Forty-eight per cent of the corn 

 so received was yellow, fourteen per cent was white and thirty-eight 

 per cent was mixed. 



