The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-04-11
GRADES OF GRAIN.
As Established by the Chicago Board o,
Trade


. As Established by the Chicago Board q
Trade.
The following description of the diff
ferent grades of grain established b,
the Chicago Board of Trade (says tn,
inter ocean, may be relied upon, ant
we hope all readers interested will cut i
out and preserve it for future reference
as it contains valuable and useful infor
nation to farmers shipping grain:
Wheat.-No. white winter must be
pure, sound, plump, and 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. l and 2, includes the
hghter-colored varieties of red. No. 3
winter includes winter not clean and
plump enough for No. 2, and weighing
not less than "a 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.
spring-Sound, plump, and well
cleaned. No. spring-Sound, reason
ably clean, and of good milling quality.
No. 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 fiintv
ptife is in no case inspected higher than
NO. z, and rice wheat no higher than re-
jected.
CoTn.-No. l yellow corn must be
yellow, sound, dry, piimp, and well
cleaned. No. l white corn must be
white, sound, dry, plump, and well
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. 1. No. 2 kiln-dried
corn must be sound, plump, and well
cleaned, white or yellow. All kiln
dried corn not good enough for No. 2
kllr dried is graded as rejected kiln
dried corn. New high mixed corn must
be three-fourths yellow of any age rea-
'onably dry and reasonably clean, but
aot sufficiently dry for high mixed, or
No. z. New mixed corn may be less
han three-fourths yellow, of any age,
md shall be reasonably dry and rea-
'onably clean, but not sufficiently dry
or No. 2. Rejected-An damp, dirty.
'r otherwise badly damaged corn shall {
,e graded as rejected.
OdtS.-No. l oats must be white. ]
ound, clean, and reasonably free from
'ther grain. No. 2 white oats. three 6
quarters white, and equal to No. in all I
ther respects. No. 2 oats, sound, rea-
onably clean, and reasonably free from !
Their grain. Rejected-Au oats, damp, /
nsound, dirty, or for any other cause Q
NIT for No. 2, shall be graded as re-
ected.
Rye.-No. / rye must be sound. L
lump, and well cleaned. No. 2 rye. n
ound, reasonably clean, and reasona- il
ly free from other grain. Rejected S
IL rye, damp, musty, dirty, or, from 8
ny cause, unfit for No. 2, shall be grad t
4 as rejected. o
Barley.-No. l barley must be plump, l
right, sound, clean, and free from 8
Their grain. No. 2 barley, sound, bright, Il
OF plump enough for No. !, reasonably
can, and reasonably free from other
rain. Extra No. 3 barley includes
lightly shrunken and otherwise slight e
damaged barley, not good enough g
n No. 2. No. 3 barley includes Skunk K
and otherwise damaged barley, p
eighing not less than forty-one pounds g
the measured bushel. Feed barley W
cludes fall barley which is damp, or p
ON any cause badly damaged, or un- e
for mailing purposes, or which is OF
rgely mixed with other grain. Of