The Worthington advance., 1880-10-28
GRAIN INSPECTION.

Important Notifications Made by tho Board
Of Trade In the Rules Regulating the
Grading OF Whsst and Other GRAINS In
st. Paul Elevators.
Ar meeting of the St. Paul Board Of Trade
Wednesday, the goth. new rules and regula-
tions for the inspection of grain wore adopted.
The new rules are of tho utmost
importance to oil who are in any
way concerned in tho grain business through
we'll to keep them a. published below in ths
GIoBs, as they are absolutely correct in letter
and word. The following are the rules, of
which the board voted to have 800 copies prin-
ted on separate sheets for the private use OF
members:
No. l hard wheat shall bs composed of the
hard varieties of wheat clean. bright and
sound, and weigh not less than 5S pounds to
the measured bushal.
No. 2, hard wheat shall be sound and we'll
cleaned. weighing, not less than IS pounds to
the measured busbel.
No. wheat shall be sound, reasonably clean
and weigh not less than 56 pounds to the meas
uIed bushel.
No. wheat shall comprise al wheat fit for
warehousing, weighing not leas than 81 pounds
to tho measured bushel; but very seedy or very
dirty wheat shall not be inspected a. of this
grade,
No. wheat shall include oil wheat 6t for
wsrehousing not good enough for No. 8, and
shalt weigh not less than 81 pounds to the
measured bushcl
Rejected wheat .ha'l include damp, bin burnt
or musty wheat fit for warehousing and wheat
too low in weight for No. 4.
Condemned wheat shall include all wheat
that is unfit for varehousing, by reason Of
being damp or full of foul seeds or dirt.
Rice wheat shall in no case be inspested
higher than rejected.
CORN.
No. yellow corn shall be dry. yellow, sound
and we'll cleaned.
No. corn shall be sound, dry and reasonar
bly, clean. An occasional dark kernel shall no.
deprive it of this grade.
No. 5 corn shall include drv corn that is toe
dirty or has too many damaged kernels for
No. 2.
Rejected corn shall include all new or damp
corn, also heated and musty.
OATS.
No. white oats shall be white, clean and
bright, and weigh not less than 50 pounds t.
the measured bushel.
No. 2 white oats must be nearly white, res-
sonably clean and weigh not less than -
pounda to the measured bushel.
No. white oats shall be mainly white, and
not equal to No. 2 white in other respects.
No. q mixed oats shall in ,lude light and dark
mixed. reasonably clean, reasonably free from
other grains, and weigh not less than 20 poundh
to the measured bushel.
No. 8 oats. All merchantable oats unfit for
No. shall be graded No. s.
Rejected oats shall include all damp, musty
or badly mixed with screenings or other grain.
No. l rye to be sound and we'll cleaned.
No. 2 rye to be sound and reasonably clean.
Rejected rye, unsound but fit for ware
housing.
No. barley shall be of bright, natural
color, plump, sound, we'll cleaned and free
from other grain.
No. 2 barley shall be sound, reasonably
plump, reasonably clean and free from other
erain-good mating barley, but may be slight
(y stained.
Extra1 No: 8 barley shall comprise barley
that is slightly unsonnd. or too much stained
OF nhrunkon for No. 2, but otherwise meeting
the requirements Of that grade.
No. 3 barley shall include shrunken, dis
colored, but reasonably sound barley, and fit
for mailing purposes, weighing not lees than
"a lbs. to the measured bushel.
Rejected barley shsll include all damp,
musty, damaged, or for any cause unfit for
mailing purposes, or largely mixed with other
grain.
Rule same as that adopted by the Chicago
board of trade.
The board also adopted rule that al grain
sold must be delivered on or before noon of
the day of sale, and that it shall have free
storage for the next succeeding thirty-six hours
after IL n. of the day of delivery.
On Tuesday, OCT. IL, in Owatonna, Hsn-
Erickson was killed by the falling of der
rick. He survived his injuries about three
hours.