The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-07-07
| H AY AND STRAW GRADES.
Rules Governing These Commodities
Adopted BY Ry. Commissioners.

| Ruies Governing These Commodities
! Adopted BY Ry. Commissioners.
The railroad and warehouse commits
sion has adopted the following rules:
Hay and Straw Grades.
Choice Timothy Hay Shall be tim.
othy not mixed with over one twentieth
other grasses, properly cured, bright
natural color, sound and well baled.
No. l Timothy Hay Shall be tim
othy with not more than one eighth
mixed with clover or other tame
grasses, properly cured, good color,
sound and well baled.
No. 2 Timothy Hay-Shall be tim,
othy not good enough for No. l, not
over one fourth mixed with clover or
other grasses, fair color, sound and well
baled.
NO. 3 Timothy Hay Shall include all
hay not good enough for other grades,
sound and well baled.
No | Clover Mixed Hay-Shall be
least one-half timothy, good color,
soundand well baled
| No. Glover Mixed Hay Shall be
timothy ana clover mixed, with at
least one third timothy, reasonably
sound and well baled.
No. / Glover Hay Shall be medi-
um clover, not over one-twentietn other
grasses, properly cured, sound and
well baled
No. 2 Glover Hay-Shall be clover
sound, well baled, not good enough for
No. L.
No Grade Hay-Shall include all hay
badly cured, stained threshed, or in
any way unsound.
Choice Prairie Hay-Shall be upland
nay of bright, natural color, well cur
ed, sweet, sound, and may contain 3
per cent weeds.
No. / Prairie Hay-Shall be upland
and may contain one-quarter Midland,
both of good color, well cured, sweet,
sound and may contain 8 per cent
weeds.
No. Prairie Hay Shall be upland,
of fair color and may contain one half
Midland both of good color, well cured,
sweet, sound, and may contain 1914 per
cent weeds
No 3 Prairie Shall include hay
not good enough for other grades and
not caked.
No. | Midland Shall be hay of good
color, well cured, sweet, sound and may
contain per cent weeds.
No. 2 Midland Shall be fair color, or
slough hay, of good color, and may con
tain l21a per cent of weeds.
Packing Hay Shall include all wild
hay and not good enough for other
grades and not caked.
No Grade Prairie Hay-Shal include
all hay not good enough for other
grades.
Straw.
No. | Straight Rye Straw-Shal be in
ldISc Ddho, clclH, VI iShe, ioiS y -
straw, pressed in bundles, sound and
well baled.
No. 2 Straight Rye Straw Shall be
in large bales, long rye straw, pressed
in bundles, sound and well baled, not
good enough for No. l.
No. / Wheat S,traw--Shall be reas-
onably clean wheat straw, sound and
well baled
No. Wheat Straw-Shall be reason
ably clean, may be some stained, but
not good enough for No. |.
No | Dat Straw-Shall be reason
ably clean oat straw, sound and well
baed.
No. 2 Dat Straw Shall be reason
ably clean, may be some stained, but
not good enough for No. 4
Alfalfa.
Choice Alfalfa Shall be reasonably
fine, leaIy alfalfa of bright green col
or, properly cured, sound and sweet and
we'll baled
No | Alfalfa3Shall be coarse alfalfa
of bright green color, or reasonably
fine, leafy alfalfa of good color, and
may contain 5 per cent of foreign
grasses, must be well baled, sound and
sweet
No. 2 Alfalfa Shall include some
what bleached, but of fair color, reas-
onably leafy, not more than one-eighth
| foreign grasses, sound and well baled.