Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1914-10-23
GRAIN INSPECTION,
HERE AND ELSEWHERE
-, r.. D. JARBOE, Chief Inspector
CONTINUED from last week.
Minneapolis

great Inspection pOlulS. GFaln IN
anection has been in vogue there for
% years and from a small beginning
one of the great inspection centers
has resulted.
The year ending August 81, 1919,
there we're inspected 1S9,102 car
loads of wheat, 6,433 of corn, oats
1919, rye 1876, barley 40,547,
speltz 40, and flax seed 2S,771, max
ing total of 2S9,771 cars of inspec-
tion on arrival"
There were 60,99O carloads in
suected out and the inspection out
of store into vessels at Duluth was
99,825,776 bushels of grain. These
figures cover the work of the depart
ment throughout the state. This
was the heaviest years business for
10 years. The lightest was the crop
of 1911, when only 165, 526 carloads
we're inspected on arrived
Average 1913 Grades
OF the 1913 crop only 10 per cent
was graded as Hard; "A per cent as
No. 1 Northern Spring; 22.7 per
cent No. Northern; 1914 per cent
rejected as No. Grade The average
dockage for the entire receipts was
26A ounces per bushel against 20
ounces for the crop preceding. There
was re-inspection on S9,256 cars. OF
this number, IS, were sustained,
both as to grade and dockage. Out
of the S9,256 cars re-inspected APP
peals were taken on 66,779 The
grades and dockage as determined
on inspection and re-inspection were
sustained on 81, $50. When it is re-
membered that a re-inspection fee of
$1.00 and an appeal fee of $1.00 are
charged and when no charge is made
on original inspection, it will be
seen that this feature of the Mime
sofa law produces a revenue of over
100000 annually
Minneapolis Differs from Winnipeg
Minneapolis differs from Winni-
peg in the handling of terminal ele-
vators In Canada the mixing of
grain is not permitted. All grades
must be placed in bins containing
like grades and are taken from the
elevator in the same condition as it
was when placed there. In Minneap-
oils mixing of grades is permitted,
which results in lower grades being
cleaned and mixed with grain of a
better quality. For the tWo-years
period ending August 81, 1912, there
were stored in public elevators
4,6S2,S25 bushels of mo Grade
wheat, 1,113,112 bushels of rejected
wheat 2,669,616 bushels OF No. 4
Northern. OF the mo Grade" only
one million bushels were shipped out
as such, the balance, over three AMI
one-half million bushels, being mixed
and shipped as higher grade OF the
rejected, 553,740 bushels we're
placed in higher grades and 2,669,-
600 bushels of No 4 Northern, only
5l3,S03 bushels went out under that
grade. There was a gain of 1882
goo bushels in NO. l Northern and a
further gain of 100000 bushels in
No. Northern.
The fees charged in Minnesota are
variable, and are raised and lowered
TO meet conditions and to keep the
department on self-supporting
oasis. a surplus of nearly 100000
was created by former charges and
TO reduce this surplus fees we're re-
duced. The present inspection fees
are At country points, CSC car;
at Minneapolis and Duluth, 15c a
car. The weighing fees is Acc a car
at all points. The law also provides
ehat the service rendered any mill or
elevator shall be self-supporting and
When the business of such mill or
elevator is not of sufficient volume
70 permit the regular fees to equal
the cost of the service, the residue
must be paid by the mill or elevator
Where the service is rendered.
Civil Service Applies
The employees of the department,
ike Winnipeg, are under a modified
civil service. The inspectors start
as track samplers and are promoted
10 fill vacancies by an examination
70 test their fitness. The result of
this system is that there are men in
the work who started with the or
SANITATION of the department 30
years ago. Naturally they have ac-
CURED very great degree of eff
cheney.
The department is one of the best
equipped that is to be found in the
united States. 1t has a laboratory
ds good as can be found. Chemists
are In charge of this part of the work
and 1T is maintained at high de-
gree of proficiency.
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