Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing; for the farmer and student of agriculture, a text-book for agricultural colleges and high schools . se Commissioners; at Milwaukee, the Chamber ofCommerce appoints the chief inspector, who in turn selects his as-sistants. STEPS IN INSPECTION. 281 The Steps in the Inspection. *When a carload of grain reachesthe terminal yards of any railroad, it is carded by the railroad com-pany Grain for Inspection and switched to tracks in the yard des-ignated as grain tracks. The inspector, with from one to three helpers, arrives at the rail-road freight
Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing; for the farmer and student of agriculture, a text-book for agricultural colleges and high schools . se Commissioners; at Milwaukee, the Chamber ofCommerce appoints the chief inspector, who in turn selects his as-sistants. STEPS IN INSPECTION. 281 The Steps in the Inspection. *When a carload of grain reachesthe terminal yards of any railroad, it is carded by the railroad com-pany Grain for Inspection and switched to tracks in the yard des-ignated as grain tracks. The inspector, with from one to three helpers, arrives at the rail-road freight yards and the designated grain tracks about seven o-clock in the morning and begins the work of inspection. The helperfirst opens the door of the car and tacks on it what is called an In-spectors Ticket. (See Figures 331 and 332). This ticket is put onthe car for the inspector to make his record on when he inspectsthe car. This record consists of the car number, the initials, kind ofgrain and the grade given it. The inspectors ticket remains on thecar until it is unloaded and is the authority of the elevator superin-tendent for unloading the By whominspected Fig. LEAVING FOR FREIGHT YARDS. The inspector, with the assistance of another helper, follows andinspects the car, carefully sampling each and every part of the car fg^J^P^^^^itjwith a tryer. (A tryer is a hollow steel pipe or tube about two the in diameter and four feet long, with a space four inches long ?Statement of W. S. Cowen, Chief Inspector of Grain, Chicago. 282 CORN.
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