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FLOUR AND GRAIN.

Weekly shipments of these products from Chicago during 1890, as posted on the

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VISIBLE SUPPLY OF GRAIN, 1889.

Statement of the weekly stocks of grain in regularly authorized warehouses at prominent grain centers of the United States and Canada, excepting California; including the quantities afloat on the lakes and the Erie Canal, presenting the visible supply of grain in the United States and Canada not disposed of with reference to ultimate destination; but easily obtainable to influence the markets or to supply any unexpected demand.

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VISIBLE SUPPLY OF GRAIN, 1890.

Statement of the weekly stocks of grain in regularly authorized warehouses at prominent grain centers of the United States and Canada, excepting California; including the quantities afloat on the lakes and the Erie Canal, presenting the visible supply of grain in the United States and Canada not disposed of with reference to ultimate destination; but easily obtainable to influence the markets or to supply any unexpected demand.

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GRAIN INSPECTION.

Rules Governing the Inspection of Grain in the City of Chicago, State of Illinois.

The following are the rules adopted by the Board of Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners establishing a proper number and standard of grades for the inspection of grain, as revised by them; the same to take effect on and after the seventh day of October, 1889, in lieu of all rules on the same subject heretofore existing:

White winter.

Long red.

Turkish winter.

Red winter.

RULE I.-WINTER WHEAT.

No. 1 white winter wheat shall be pure white winter wheat, or red and white mixed, sound, plump and well cleaned.

No. 2 white winter wheat shall be white winter wheat, or red and white mixed, sound and reasonably clean.

No. 3 white winter wheat shall include white winter wheat, or red and white mixed, not clean and plump enough for No. 2, but weighing not less than fifty-four pounds to the measured bushel.

No. 4 white winter wheat shall include white winter wheat, damp, musty, or from any cause so badly damaged as to render it unfit for No. 3.

No. 1 long red winter wheat shall be pure red winter wheat of the long-berried varieties; sound, plump and well cleaned.

No. 2 long red winter wheat shall be of the same varieties as No. 1; sound and reasonably clean.

Turkish red winter wheat.-The grades of Nos. 1 and 2 Turkish red winter wheat shall correspond with the grades of Nos. 1 and 2 red winter wheat, except that they shall be of the Turkish variety.

In case of mixture of Turkish red winter wheat with red winter wheat it shall be graded according to the quality thereof and classed as Turkish wheat.

No. 1 red winter wheat shall be pure red winter wheat of both light and dark colors of the shorter-berried varieties; sound, plump and well cleaned.

No. 2 red winter wheat shall be red winter wheat of both light and dark colors; sound and reasonably clean.

No. 3 red winter wheat shall include red winter wheat not cleaned and plump enough for No. 2, but weighing not less than fiftyfour pounds to the measured bushel.

No. 4 red winter wheat shall include red winter wheat damp, musty, or from any cause so badly damaged as to render it unfit for No. 3.

In case of the mixture of red and white winter wheat it shall be Mixture. graded according to the quality thereof and classed as white winter wheat.

No. 1 Colorado wheat shall be sound, plump and well cleaned. No. 2 Colorado wheat shall be sound, reasonably clean and of good milling quality.

No. 3 Colorado wheat shall include Colorado wheat not cleaned and plump enough for No. 2, but weighing not less than fifty-four pounds to the measured bushel.

RULE II.-SPRING WHEAT.

Colorado.

No. 1 hard spring wheat shall be sound, plump and well cleaned. Hard spring. No. 2 hard spring wheat shall be sound, reasonably clean, and of good milling quality.

No. 1 spring wheat shall be sound, plump and well cleaned.

No. 2 spring wheat shall be sound, reasonably clean and of good milling quality.

No. 3 spring wheat shall include all inferior, shrunken, or dirty spring wheat weighing not less than fifty-three pounds to the measured bushel.

No. 4 spring wheat shall include spring wheat damp, musty, grown, badly bleached, or for any cause which renders it unfit for No. 3.

The grades of Nos. 1, 2 and 3 white spring wheat shall correspond with the grades Nos. 1, 2 and 3 spring wheat; except that they shall be of the white variety, or shall contain 5 per cent. or more of such white wheat.

Black Sea and Flinty Pfife wheat shall in no case be inspected higher than No. 2, and rice wheat no higher than No. 4.

RULE II.-MIXED WHEAT.

The grades of Nos. 2 and 3 mixed wheat shall be equal in quality to the grades Nos. 2 and 3 red winter wheat; except that they shall include mixtures of spring and winter wheat.

Spring wheat.

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