50 Importation of Live Stock into Brazil, [april, 



A Bill has recently been introduced into the United States 

 House of Representatives to provide for the inspection and 

 grading of grain and to secure uniformity 

 Grading of Grain in in standards and classification. For a 



the United States, number of years complaints have been 

 prevalent as to the present system of 

 grading, and the subject was referred to in the President's 

 message to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the 

 session of 1907, as follows : — " The grain-producing industry 

 of the country, one of the most important, in the United States, 

 deserves special consideration at the hands of the Congress. 

 Our grain is sold almost exclusively by grades. To secure 

 satisfactory results in our home markets and to facilitate our 

 trade abroad these grades should approximate the highest 

 degree of uniformity and certainty. The present diverse 

 methods of inspection and grading throughout the country 

 under different laws and boards result in confusion and lack 

 of uniformity, destroying that confidence which is necessary 

 for healthful trade. Complaints against the present methods 

 have continued for years, and they are growing in volume and 

 intensity, not only in this country but abroad. I therefore 

 suggest to the Congress the advisability of a national system 

 of inspection and grading of grain entering into inter-state and 

 foreign commerce as a remedy for the present evils." 



The Bill which has been introduced establishes a section of 

 grain inspection and grading in the Department of Agriculture, 

 and provides for the appointment of inspectors at the principal 

 grain centres. These inspectors are to inspect and grade 

 grain in accordance with such standards as may be determined 

 and to issue certificates for it, and such grain is not to be mixed 

 with grain of a different grade without being re-inspected and 

 graded. The shipment of grain from one State to another or 

 to a foreign country without previous inspection and grading is 

 prohibited.. 



In continuation of the information published last month 

 (Journal, March, 1908, p. 738) Mr. Consul-General Chapman 

 has now furnished some further particulars 

 Importation of Live on this subject. 



Stock into Brazil. As regards climate, it appears from 

 observations recorded at certain places in 



