Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 19, Number 37, DeMotte, Jasper County, 12 August 1949 — To Revise Bean Grading Standard [ARTICLE]

To Revise Bean Grading Standard

4 revision in the standards in the grading of soybeans, to become effective September 1, 1949, has been announced by F. E. Robbins, associate professor of crop production in the Purdue University School of Agriculture who is also a licensed grain inspector. The new revision will affect grain elevator operators and Indiana farmers who will harvest more than one and one-half million acres of soybeans this year. Under the new standards, both dockage and foreign material in the soybeans will be combined under one specification and will be called' “foreign material.” This ruling will eliminate dockage entirely. In this announcement, Prof, aids there will be no tolerance, Robbins explains, “At present, dockage is recorded in whole per cents only. Under the new standfractions will be counted, and the

entire percentage will be added to what will be called foreign material. For example, if what was formerly called dockage (that passing through an 8-64th sieve) is 2.7 percent and the foreign material is 1.8 per cent, the- two will be added, making a total of 4.5 percent. The new standard permits three percent foreign material instead of two per cent in No. 2 soybeans; hence percent can be deducted from the total 4.5 percent, leaving 1.5 percent. This remaining percent becomes a degrading factor, and the sample grades No. 4.” Prof. Robbins will conduct" eight grain grading schools throughout Indiana during August and September to explain the new standaids to grain elevator operators and farm leaders. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Frame Jr., of Xenia, Ohio, visited over the week-end with his parents. Sunday they were at the Adam Smith home for chicken dinner, which was in honor of Grandpa Frame’s birthday, who is we believe 87 years old.

A dinner was held, in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Porter Sunday, in observance of their 30th wedding anniversary. Those who helped them celebrate were Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Griffin of Goodland, Jan and Jana Doyle. Jana returned home with the Griffins for a weeks visit. Mr. and Mrs. John Akers are driving a new four door fleetline Chevrolet.

. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph DeKock and daughter, Mary and sons, Ralph, Joe and John are vacation-, ing in Minnesota. They plan to do some fishing, on the Clifford Shelhart at Battle Lake.

Mr. and Mrs. John Hission and Caiol Jo arrived back in town last Sunday after spending the summer in Alberquerque where Mr. Mission attended New Mex> | ico university.