Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1917-07-18
Official Grain Standards Of
the United States for Wheat

Pursuant to the authority vested in
the Secretary of Agriculture by Part
B, known .as the United States grain
standards Act, of an Act Of Congress
entitled "An Act Making appropria-
tons for the Department. Of Agricul-
ture for the fiscal year ending June
thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven
teen, and for other purposes approved
August II, 1916 $50 United States
Statutes at Large, pages 446, 4S2),
David f. Houston, Secretary Of Agri-
culture, do hereby fix, establish, pro-
mulgate. and give public notice of,
standards of quality and condition for
wheat, as hereinafter described, which
shall become effective, for Hard Red
Winter wheat, Soft Red Winter wheat,
Common White wheat, and White Club
wheat, on the first day of July, nineteen
hundred and seventeen, and, for all
other wheat, on the first day Of August,
nineteen hundred and seventeen:
Official Grain Standards of the United
States for Wheat.
Section /. Basis of determinations
Each determination, other than that
OF dockage, for the purposes of these
Standards shall be made upon the basis
Of the grain when free from dockage
Sec. 2. Percentages. Percentage, ex-
cept in the case of moisture, shall be
percentages ascertained by weight.
Sec. 3. Dockage.-Dockage includes
sand, dirt, weed seeds, weed stems,
chaff, straw, grain other than wheat,
and any other foreign material, which
can be removed readily from the wheat
by the use Of appropriate sieves, clean
ing devices, or other practical means
suited to separate the foreign material
present; also undeveloped, shriveled,
and small pieces of wheat kernels
necessarily removed in properly separ-
ating the foreign material. The guam
tlty OF dockage shall be calculated in
terms OF percentage based on the total
weight of the grain including the dock
age. The percentage Of dockage so
calculated shall be stated in terms Of
whole per centum and half per centum.
A fraction Of per centum when equal
to, or greater than, a half shall be
treated as half, and when less than
half shall be disregarded The per-
centage Of dockage so determined and
stated shall be added to the grade de-
signation.
Sec. 4 Wheat-Any grain which,
when free from dockage, contains more
than six per centum of grain of kind
or kinds other than wheat shall not be
classified as wheat.
Sec. 5. Glasses and subclasses.
Wheat shall be divided into classes and
subclasses as follows:
CLASS I. =
Hard Red Spring.
This class shall include all varieties
of hard red spring wheat, but shall not
include more than ten per centum of
other wheat or wheats This class
shall be divided into four subclasses as
follows:
Dark Northern Spring.
This subclass shall include wheat of
the class Hard Red Spring of which
eighty-fve per centum or more consists
of dark, hard and vitreous kernels, but
shall not contain more than ten per
centum of wheat Of the variety Hump
back.
Northern Spring.
This subclass shall include wheat of
the class Hard Red Spring of which
less than eighty-five per centum and
more than twenty-five per centum con-
sists Of dark, hard, and vitreous kerr
nels, but shall not contain more than
ten per centum of wheat Of the variety
Humpback.
Red Spring.
This subclass shall include wheat of
the class Hard Red Spring which con-
sists of kernels of yellow or notified