MONTANA-GROWN WHEAT. 5 
in accordance with the practices of the Mmnesota State Grain Inspec- 
tion Department. In others, a very different classification has been 
adopted, which system is fathered largely by elevator companies 
that have connections with Montana flour mills. Where sufficient 
erain is grown to invite competition in the grain-handling business, 
grading conditions are generally much better than where there is 
but one buyer. For instance, in several localities where there has 
been but one grain buyer, winter wheat, whether of poor or good 
quality, has been bought at uniform prices and no attempt made at 
erading, a practice that is manifestly unfair and offers encourage- 
ment to slipshod methods of harvesting and marketing grain. Table 
I gives in outline form a summary of these general commercial prac- 
tices. | 
TasLeE I.—Common varieties and types of Montana wheats, with their commercial classt- 
fication. 
Variety. General type. Commercial classification. 
Winter wheat: 
PUEKOV Ite ee tte Se. ....| Hard red winter. .| Local, higher grades as 1 and 2 Turkey; lower 
grades as western red (grades 1, 2, and 3); starchy 
samples may not be graded better than 1 western 
red. Minnesota classification as No. 1, 2, and 
3 hard winter; very poor quality wheat may be 
classed as western red; followed locally in some 
, instances. 
Crailbite sie eS ee Soft red or semi- | Local and Minnesota classification, as western red. 
Velvet Chaff (winter).....-. hard red winter. 
Fall Club and other winter | Soft white.........| Western white. 
varieties of white wheat. 
Spring wheat: 
Fife, Bluestem, and all com- | Hard red spring.-.-.| Local, varies; higher quality grades No. 1, 2, and 3 
mon varieties and strains northern; lower quality wheat, including starchy 
of northern-grown spring _ lots, may be classed as western red. Minnesota 
wheat. classification, as northern spring wheat. 
Pringle Champlain........--. Hata ted or semi- | Varies; western and northern spring. 
ard spring. 
Galvaloseenes eco ees Soft red BENT aCes Varies; western, northern spring, and durum. 
SprineiC lip ae eee Soltiwihttess=22-. = Western white. 
SAM Cys GOMnS 25 Sees SS Sa | Shae ae ease mae meee 
Other spring=sowm «white |---.2.5:2-22..2..... 
wheats. 
iibanka se ete | Hard. flint Durum; grades 1, 2, and 3 durum; local and ter- 
Pelissier, spring.......-...-- | Tera ue minal market classification probably identical. 
Other durum varieties. -... | 
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The most uniform classification is followed with hard spring wheat. 
Generally the classification and division into the northern spring 
grades are much the same as those promulgated by the Minnesota 
State Grain Inspection Department. Good and fair quality of hard 
winter wheat is bought as No. 1 and No. 2 Turkey. Hard winter 
wheat, not thought to be good enough for these grades, is bought as 
western red wheat and graded No. 1, 2, or 3, according to quality. 
The western red grades afford a convenient place for such red wheats 
as for various reasons are not considered good enough for the northern 
spring or Turkey (hard winter) grades. This is also true for the soft 
red wheats, such as Crail Fife. 
