The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-04-10
GRADES OF GRAIN.

GRADES OF GRAIN.
AS Established by the Chicago Board Of
Trade.
The following description of the diff
ferent grades of grain established by
the Chicago Board of Trade (says the
Inter- ocean, may be relied upon, and
we hope all readers interested will cut it
out and preserve it for future reference,
as it contains valuable and useful infor-
nation to farmers shipping grain:
Wheat. No. l white winter must be
pure, sound, plump, end well cleaned.
No. 2 white winter-Pure, sound, and
reasonably clean. No. red winter
Pure, red, or red and white mixed,
sound, plump, and well cleaned. No. 2
red winter-Pure, red, or red and white
mixed, sound, and reasonably clean.
Amber, Nos. 1 and 2, includes the
ighter-colored varieties of red. No.
winter includes winter not clean and
plump enough for No. 2, and weighing
not less than 81 pounds to the measured
bushel. Rejected winter includes win
ter damp, musty, or from any cause so
badly damaged as to render it unfit for
No. 3. Spring-No. hard spring must
be sound, plump and well cleaned. No.
2 hard spring Sound, reasonably
clean, and Of good milling quality. No.
l spring Sound, plump, and well
cleaned. No. spring Sound, reason
ably clean, and of good milling quality.
No. 3 spring includes all inferior.
shrunken, or dirty spring, weighing not
less than So pounds to the measured
bushel. Rejected spring includes
spring damp, musty, grown. badly
bleached, or for any other cause which
renders it unfit for No. 3. In case of
mixture Of spring and winter, it is called
mixed, and graded according to the
quality thereof Black sea and finty
pffe is in no case inspected higher than
No. 2, and rice wheat no higher than re-
jected.
J Coraa.-No. l yellow corn must be
yellow, sound, dry, plump, and well
cleaned. No. 1 white corn must be
white, sound, dry, plump, and we'll
cleaned, white and yellow, unmixed
with red. High mixed must be three
quarters yellow, and equal to No. 2 in
condition and quality. No 2 corn must
be dry, reasonably clean, but not plump
enough for No. /. No. 2 Kindred
corn must be sound, plump, and we'll
cleaned, white or yellow. All kiln
dried corn not good enough for No. 2
kilr-dried is graded as rejected kiln
dried corn. New high mixed corn must
be three-fourths yellow of any age, rea-
sonably dry and reasonably clean, but
not sufficiently dry for high mixed, or
No. 2. New mixed corn may be less
than three-fourths yellow, of any age,
and shall be reasonably dry and rea-
sonably clean, but not sufficiently dry
for No. 2 Rejected damp, dirty,
or otherwise badly damaged corn shall
be graded as rejected. u
.Qf Oats.--No. l oats, must be white.
sound, clean, and reasonably free from
other grain. No. 2 white oats, three
quarters white, and equal to No. in all
other respects. No. oats, sound, rea-
sonably clean, and reasonably free from.
other grain. Rejected-All oats, damp,
unsound, dirty, Or for any other cause
unfit for No. 2, shall be graded as re-
jected.
Rye.-No. 1 rye must be sound.
plump, and well cleaned. No. 2 rye,
sound, reasonably clean. and reasona-
bly, free from other grain. Rejected =
All rye, damp, musty, dirty, or, from
any cause, unfit for No. 2, shall be grad
ed as rejected. !
Barley.-No. 1 barley must be plump,
bright, sound, clean, and free from
other grain. No. barley, sound, bright,
not plump enough for No, /, reasonably
clean, and reasonably free from other
grain. Extra No. 8 barley includes
slightly shrinken and otherwise slight
" damaged barley, not good enough
for No. Q. No. barley includes shrunk-
en- and otherwise damaged barley,
weighing not less than forty-one pounds
to the measured bushel. Feed barley
includes fall barley which is damp, or
from any cause. badly damaged, or UNI
fit for mailing purposes, or, which is
largely mixed with other grain. a''.. , ~
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