The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1905-09-01
NEW GRADES
Established by the Wis
conSin Commission.
ARE NOW IN FORCE
And It is Likely That Much North Dako-
ta Grain Will be Shipped through
Wisconsin Ports.

ta Grain Will be Shipped through
Wisconsin Ports.
The Superior Telegram publishes
the following concerning the New
Wise onsin wheat grades:
estate of Wisconsin, City of Super
ior, Office of Grain and Warehouse
commission.
''The following are the grades of
grain established by the grain and
wareh ouse commission in compliance
with the laws of 1905 of the state of
Wisconsin creating grain and ware
house commission for said state and
providing for licensing and regulating
warehouse commission for said state
and providing for licensing and regu-
lating warehouses and elevators for the
storage and inspection of ain in the
city of Superior and conditionally at
other terminal points in said state.
These rules to be in force and effect
on and after August /, 1905.
Superior Grades. No. Hard Da-
kota spring wheat shall be sound, dry,
bright and we'll cleaned spring wheat.
compos ed mostly of hard Scotch var
ieties and shall test not less than So
pounds per measured bushel
No 2 Northern Dakota spring wheat
shall be sound and reasonably clean,
composed mostly of the hard varieties
of northern grown spring wheat and
test not less than IS pounds per meas
ared bushel.
No. spring wheat shall be COM
posed mostly of the hard varieties
spring wheat and that are shrunken
or for any cause not less than So
pounds per measured bushel.
No. 4 spring wheat shall be compos
ed of spring wheat not fit for higher
grade in consequence of being of poor
quality, shrunken, slightly damp or
slightly musty, and test not less than
40 pounds per measured bushel. Re.
jected spring wheat shall include all
spring. wheat grown, badly leached
or for any cause unfit for No. 4.
No. durum wheat shall be bright
dry, sound and we'll cleaned, composed
of wheat commonly known as macaroni.
No. durum wheat shall be sound,
dry. reasonably clean, may be slightly
leached or shrunken, not good enough
for No. /. ..
No. 3 durum wheat shall include
all wheat badly bleached, shrunken or
smutty, not good enouh for the higher
grade.
No. rye shall be sound, plump,
we'll cleaned and shall test not less than
56 pounds per measured bushel.
No. rye shall be sound, reasonably
clean, reasonably free from other
grains, and shall test not less than 55
pounds per measured bushel.
No. barley shall be plump, bright,
clean and free from other grains, and
shall test not less than 4S pounds per
measured bushel.
No. barley shall be sound of heal
thy color. reasonably clean, reasonably
free from other grains, not plump
enough for No. 1, and shall test not
less than 46 pounds per measured
bushel.
No. barley shall include all slight
~ shrunken and otherwise slightly
damaged barley. Lot good enough for
No. 2, and shall test not less than A
pounds per measured bushel.
No. northwestern Dakota fax seed
shall be mature, sound, dry and sweet
and shall be northern grown. The
maximum quantity Of field, stack,
storage or other damaged seed, inter
mixed shall mot exceed 12H per cent.
The minimum test weight shall be 81
pounds per measured bushel of COM
mercially pure seed.
No. 2 Dakota fax seed shall be
northern grown, sound, dry and free
from mustiness, and shall contain not
more than 35 per cent of immature
field stack, storage or otherwise dam
aged fax seed, and shall test not less
than 40 pounds per measured bushel of
commercially pure seed.
Rejected haxseed shall include all
fax seed that has been bin burned,
immature and field damaged, that is
ware houseable and fit for storage and
shall test not less than AZ pounds per
meas ured bushel Of commercially pure
seed.
Child is a Marvel.