Daily globe., 1879-04-22
THE WHEAT TRADE.
The Farmers' Board Of Tyade Of tho State
of Minnesota.
STATE OF MINNESOTA,
ST. PAUL, April s, 1879.

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ST. PAUL, April 5, 1879.
By virtue Of en- act of the Legislature en-
titled IAN act to provide for the appointment
and to prescribe the duties of board of trade,
to be known as the Farmers Board OF Trade of
the State of Minnesota and also an act en-
titled IAN act to regulate tho grading and
weighing of wheat in the State of Minnesota"
approved March IL, 1879, do hereby establish
the following grades of wheat for this State:
No. extra, to weigh not less than GO pounds
to the measured bushel, to be bright, sound
and clean, of the variety known as Scotch Fife.
or equally hard wheat.
to the measured bushel, to be bright, sound,
clean, ana Scotch Fife, or other equally hard
variety.
No. l, same as No hard, except to include
soft variety of wheat.
No. 2, to weigh not less than Sc pounds to
clean.
No. 8, to weigh not less than 81 pounds to
the measured bushel, sound and reasonably
clean.
No. 4, 81 pounds to the measured bushel, fit
for warehonsing.
Rejected. weighing not less than 4S pounds
to the measured bushel, and suitable for ware
housing. No musty or badly. grown wheat, or
Rice wheat, shall be graded higher than re-
jected.
And we do hereby prescribe and approve the
" Stacy Filler" as the lawful method and de-
vice for filling the measures authorized under
the provisions of said act to determine the
grade Of wheat in this State, and said STACY
Filler" shall be used as near as may be in the
following manner, to-wit:
First-When the half-bushel measure is used
to establish the grade of wheat, the STACY
Filler shall be adjusted thereto with the valve
closed. Three pecks of wheat, or as near as
may be, to be tested, shall then be placed iii
the filler. The valves will then be opened by
the movement of hand slide attached to the
filler for that purpose, and the wheat allowed
to run into the measure in uniform manner
until full. The valves will then be closed, the
filler turned once or twice around on the meas
ure to perform stroke to the wheat contained
in the measure, and then removed. The weight
of the wheat in the measure shall then be ascer-
tanned, by placing the measure, with the wheat
contained therein, upon scales, and the weight
of the measure deducted from the total weight
of the measure and wheat SO weighed. This
result multiplied by two shall be deemed the
true weight of bushel of wheat so tested.
Second When the two quart measure is used
to establish the grade of wheat, the Stacy filler,
adapted to tbs two quart measure, shall be ad-
justed thereto, with the valves closed. Three
| quarts, or as near as may be, of the wheat to
be tested shall then be placed in the filler. The
| valves shall then be opened in the same man.
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| lowed to pass into the measure until full. The
| valves will then be closed and the wheat re-
| naming in the filler poured out. The wheat
contained in the measure, with filler and meas
ure combined, will then be weighed by bal
ance which shall be adjusted 80 that it shall
demonstrate the weight of the wheat contained
in the measure and represent the number o
pounds contained in measured bushel of the
same.
1t is hereby required that all measures uset
and means Of weighing employed in gradin
wheat be sealed and stamped by a lawful scale
of weights and measures.
| SAM'L w. FURBER,
President of Board, Cottage Grove, Minn
COLEMAN MACY, Secretary, st. Paul, MINI.