682 Weighing of Wet Grains. [fed., 



takes place. In the event of such a certificate and declaration 

 not being provided pigs may only be landed at Cape Town, 

 Port Elizabeth, and East London, where they shall be quaran- 

 tined for not less than twenty-eight days from the date oi 

 embarkation. Any pigs found to be infected with swine-fever 

 on arriving at any port in the Colony, or which have been in 

 contact during the voyage with the pigs so affected, will be dealt 

 with in such manner as the Government may direct. 



Dairy farmers who buy wet grains in London for cow-feeding 



occasionally find that the weights of consignments received by 



them are materially less than the weight 



Weighing' of 



Wet Grains. alleged to have been put on rail at the 

 forwarding station. Some reduction is 

 likely to occur owing to drainage, but the deficiency may be 

 partly due to the fact that short weight has been loaded or that 

 • the grains have been loaded excessively wet. If it were the 

 practice of railway companies to weigh every truckload of 

 grains, farmers could check the weights of the consignments 

 despatched by referring to the railway weights, but railway 

 companies accept, as a rule, the declarations of the senders of 

 goods as to their weight and only occasionally check the 

 correctness of these statements. 



In London wet grains are sold by the ton, and, apparently, 

 the weights of consignments are more often estimated than 

 ascertained by weighing. In Glasgow wet grains are sold by the 

 boll of six bushels. The boll is sometimes measured by means 

 of bushel baskets, but often estimated, and it is stated that 

 fuller measure is given when the trade is slack than at other 

 times. In the London trade any abnormal excess of moisture 

 is against the purchaser, but in the Glasgow trade it is in his 

 favour, as the grains when excessively wet lie closer in the 

 measure. 



It has been suggested to the Board by the President of the 

 West of Scotland Dairy Farmers' Association that bulk is 

 probably a fairer test of value in grains than weight, and is 

 generally more easily ascertained or estimated by farmers than 



