Maximum limits of--
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Foreign material Damaged kernels
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Grade test weight Foreign
per bushel matter Heat Thin Rye
(pounds) other than Total damaged Total (percent)
wheat (percent) (percent) (percent)
(percent)----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------U.S. No. 1........................ 56.0 1.0 3.0 0.2 2.0 10.0U.S. No. 2........................ 54.0 2.0 6.0 0.2 4.0 15.0U.S. No. 3........................ 52.0 4.0 10.0 0.5 7.0 25.0U.S. No. 4........................ 49.0 6.0 10.0 3.0 15.0 ...........U.S. Sample grade--
U.S. Sample grade is rye that:
(a) Does not meet the requirements for the grades U.S. Nos. 1, 2, 3, or 4; or
(b) Contains 8 or more stones or any numbers of stones which have an aggregate weight in excess of 0.2
percent of the sample weight, 2 or more pieces of glass, 3 or more crotalaria seeds (Crotalaria spp.), 2 or
more castor beans (Ricinus communis L.), 4 or more particles of an unknown foreign substance(s) or a
commonly recognized harmful or toxic substance(s), 2 or more rodent pellets, bird droppings, or equivalent
quantity of other animal filth per 1\1/8\ to 1\1/4\ quarts of rye; or
(c) Has a musty, sour, or commercially objectionable foreign odor (except smut or garlic odor); or
(d) Is heating or otherwise of distinctly low quality.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Special Grades and Special Grade Requirements