AMERICAN EXPORT CORN (MAIZE) in EUROPE. IT 
'l ill' CORN EXAMINED i\ EUROP1 GRADED ACCORDING I" ORAOE 
KOISTUR] LIMITS O] im GRAIN DEALERS' NATIONAL ASSOCIATION. 
The Grain Dealers' National Association at its annual convention 
held al St. Louis, Mo., in October, 1908, adopted rules and specifi- 
cations for commercial grain grades and recommended thai the) be 
adopted for general use in the grain business. These rule- limited 
the percentages of moisture to be allowed in the different grades of 
corn as Follows: "No. I Corn," i~> per cent: "No. 2 Corn," 16 pel 
cent; "No. 3 Corn," 19 per cent; and "No. l Corn," 22 per cent, 
these grades t«> include cool corn only. 
Table X shows the corn examined arranged in grades according to 
it- moisture content as tested in Europe and according to the limits 
of moisture fixed for each grade by the association rules. Prom 
this table it will be seen that according to those rule- 2,815,795 
bushels, or 18.7 per cent, of the corn examined and that was shipped 
So. J " or equivalent grades would have been graded "No. 2" 
or better; that 7,528,941 bushels, <>r 50.1 per cent, would have been 
graded "No. 3;" that 2,796,058 bushels, or L8.6 per cent, would 
have been graded "No. i:" and that 1,885,641 bushels, or 12.7 per 
(■nit, would have been graded "Sample," on account of being heating 
or hot. Had the heating or hot corn in the shipments arrived cool 
it would have been classed among the other grades, as in th.it case 
it is believed none of the corn would have shown moisture contents 
of more than 20.6 per cent, the highest percentage of moisture found 
in any of t he coo) corn. 
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era! cargoes that had been shipped as "artificially dried" corn 
examined. This corn was certificated as No. j or equivalent 
grades and the data relating thereto are included in the tables 
and diagrams. Various terms in addition to the grades were used in 
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