Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-03-19
GROWERS OF GRAIN
GIVE THEIR VIEWS
REPRESENTATIVES. OF NORTH.
WEST STATES SUGGEST
CHANGES IN STANDARDS.
MET AT HELENA SATURDAY
Resolutions Adopted at Helena to Be
Presented at Public Hearings
Standards Modified Have
Never Satisfied.

Helena, Mont.-The conference neld
here of representatives of the north
western grain growing states, after
an all-day meeting, decided upon
views that will be presented on be-
half of the states interested relative
to the grain grading standards before
the federal bureau of markets at Min
neapolis March 81.
1t is asserted that the grain stan
dards in effect last year cost the
farmers of the northwest thousands
of dollars. Since the season closed
these standards have been modified
and the notifications, as far as they
went, were in favor of the producers.
Recently the federal bureau of
markets announced a further con-
templated change in the grain stand
ards and invited suggestions. 1t was
to formulate these suggestions united
ly on behalf of the grain growing
states in the northwest that the con-
ference was called at the suggestion
of Attorney General William LANCER
of North Dakota.
Resolution Made Public.
The resolutions as adopted were
given to the public Saturday night.
They will be presented to the United
States department of agriculture at
public hearings to be held in Spo-
kane next Monday and in Minneapolis
next Saturday. They provide for
amendments to the present standards
for testing grain and eliminate class
4 as to wheat, placing it in a general
classification as sample wheat" The
resolutions also provide for classified
ton of weights, lowering the tests
as to poundage per bushel.
Changes Proposed.
The condensed tablulation of pro
posed grade requirements was modi-
fled and amended after this fashion
by the conference:
$50 that the minimum test weight
per bushel of grade 1, in class / shall
be So pounds of hard spring wheat
and 81 pounds of northern spring
wheat
$50 that the. minimum test weight
per bushel of grade 2. class 1, be "a
pounds of hard flinty wheat and sc
pounds of other varieties.
$50 that the minimum test weight
per bushel of grade No of class
shall be 81 pounds.
$50 that the minimum test weight
per bushel in grade l of classes 2, 3
4 and shell be SO pounds.
$50 that the minimum test weight
per bushel in grade No. of classes
2, 3, and shall be 81 pounds.
$50 that the minimum test weight
per bushel of grade No. 3 in classes
2, 3, and 3 shall be 81 pounds.
$50 that the minimum test weigh
per bushel of grade No. 3 in classe!
2, 3, A and shall be So pounds.
$50 that the maximum limits o
| wheat of other classes in grades 1,
and 3 shall be 10 per cent
Rye and Barley.
! $50 that the maximum limits o
both dye and barley, either singly o
in combination, shall be per cent il
grade No. /, per cent in grade Nc
2 and per cent in grade No 8.
$50 that the maximum limits o
damaged kernels shall be total il
/, grade No. 1, per cent; in grade Nc
2, s per cent; in grade No. 3, Is pc
cent
1850 that the maximum limits o
heat damaged kernels shall be il
grade No. l, per cent; in grade Nc
, 2, l per cent, and in grade No. 3,
per cent.
The conference wholly eliminated
grade No. of all classes of grain
and then added the following section
| to the federal standards.
Section 23. Wet grain. Wheat con
tanning more than Is per cent mois
ture shall specify the grade. if /
, were in proper condition, with tn,
addition o fthe words excess mois
ture" followed by the percentage O
moisture"
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