The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-08
new WEIGRTSARE
Recommendation
WHEAT GRADESAT
FARGO HEARING
Farmers Ask That No. ]
Wheat Weigh 81
Pounds a Bushel
WANT ELIMINATION .
OF MOISTURE TEST
Seek Reduction of Maxi
mum Limitation For
Foreign Seeds

Two hundred North Dakota farm
ers and grain buyers asked Charles
J. Brand. OF the bureau Of markets
Of the United States department OF
agriculture, Washington, for changes
in the present federal system Of
grain grading at a hearing in the
recommending new weights for the
several grades of wheat, that the
moisture test as an element in grad
ing be eliminated, and for a reduc-
ton of the maximum limitations for
inseparable foreign material when
grading.
a committee representing the
farmers prepared and presented to
the officers answers to the group OF
questions presented, the questions
and answers follow:
q. Shall the class designation COM
mon and red durum wheat be chang
ed, and IL so, what should be substi-
tuted?
a. The test weights of durufh
should be the same as the spring
grades.
Q. Shall the subclass red spring
humpback in class /, and red durum
in class 2 be eliminated?
A. The red spring humpback sub
class in class / should be eliminated.
q. The official standards specify
that "any grain which when free from
dOckage contains more than per
cent of grain of a kind, or kinds other
than wheat shall not be classified as
wheat" Shall this definition for wheat
be changed, and If so. what definition
is suggested?
A. The definition of wheat should
be so changed as to read 10 per cent
mixture instead of the present per
cent, and the term employed in desig-
cent be sample wheat.
=. Shall the grades for mixed
wheat be changed?
A. The present designation OF
wheat under the term mixed wheat"
should be called sample wheat.
q. Shall the definitions and grades
for smutty wheat be changed?
Q. Shall the minimum test weight
per bushel be changed?
A. Yes, No. 1 should be 81 pounds,
No. 2 should be 81 pounds, and No.
should be 81 pounds per bushel.
Wheat Of lower than 81 pounds weight
per bushel should be classified as
sample wheat.
Q. Shall the moisture test be elm
A. The moisture test as an element
in the fixing of the grades should be
eliminated, and If elimination is not
possible the moisture content should
J. Shall maximum limitation for
total damaged, heat damaged, total
inseparable foreign material, and spe-
cial limitations for inseparable for
eign material be changed?
A. No. / wheat may carry per
cent damaged kernels, No. may car
ry 10 per cent damaged kernels, and
No. 3 may carry Is per cent damaged
kernels, and anything over is per cent
may be classed as sample wheat.
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aged kernels, No. may carry IL of !
per cent. No. 3 l per cent, and over
/ per cent may be sample wheat.
Total amounts of inseparables in
grades may be 3 per cent for No. /,
per cent for No. 2, per cent for
No. 3, and over Z per cent shall class
the wheat as sampler wheat. The
percentage of kinghead, corn cookie,
Vetch, darnel, wild rose, either single
or combines may be L. of l per cent
cent for No. 3, and over 3 per cent
shall carry the wheat into sample
wheat.
Q. II all. the garlic and wild onion
bullets are removed in the dockage,
and none remain in the dockage-free
wheat and no odor is present. shall
the garlic and wild onion be consid-
cred in the grading of the wheat?
A. Garlic and wild onions no long
er being present should not be con-
O. Shall dockage and smut dock
age be expressed in terms of a whole
per cent instead of a half per cent?
A. Smut dockage should be ex-
pressed in terms of half per cent.
Q. Shall licensed inspectors be pro
hibited from certifying to the grade
of any lot or parcel of grain unless
the samples are drawn by themselves
or by samplers who are approved for
the purpose by the secretary Of agri-
culture, and who are not interested,
financially or otherwise, directly or
Indirectly, in any grain elevator or
warehouse, or I'm the merchandising
of any person owning or operating
any grain elevator or warehouse?
A. Yes.
Q. Shall licensed inspectors be re-
quired in all cases to state on the Ger
tificate the reasons for grading grain
No. 3. No. 4. No. g. No. g. or sample
grade?
The following recommendation
were made:
That the sub-class dark northern
spring shall be changed from IS per
cent to 65 per cent consisting OF
dark, hard, and vitreous kernels.
That the sub-class northern spring
shall consist of less than So per cent
of dark, hard, and vitreous kernels.
The inspector shall note on the
inspection ticket what trade the
wheat is, and show why wheat grad
ing No. 2. No. 3, or sample wheat
carries that designation together
with a notation as to the grade the
wheat would carry If in proper con-
dition.
That the charges for inspections