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Excerpt from The Service of Federal Grain Standards In the early days grain was sold by sample or the buyer looked it over personally, when possible. When the buyers could not see the grain beforehand, dealers developed the custom of submitting a sample or of signing a statement as to its general quality and condition. This practice of individual dealers issuing their-own Written state ments of grain quality did not prove very satisfactory, however, and in time the matter was taken over by 'chambers of commerce and boards of trade. These organizations adopted a system of grading and employed inspectors to grade the grain either when arriving at market or at time of shipment. Grain was first graded in the United States in 1857 by inspectors employed by the Chicago Board of Trade. As the trade in grain grew and became of paramount importance in the surplus-producing States, the grading and inspection Work eventually was taken over by several of the State governments. This was done first in Illinois in 1871. Between 1871 and 1916 nine States established grain-inspection departments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.