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Show WHEAT STANDARDS TO BE REVISED WASHINGTON, March 8. Tentative Tenta-tive revised standards for wheat under the grain standards act were announced announc-ed today by tho secretary of agriculture. agricul-ture. The standards aro less exacting, especially with reference to moisture, mixtures of wheat of different classes, inseparably foreign material and rye mixtures than aro the present .standards. .stand-ards. Before final action is taken upon the standards five public hearings will bo held to afford tho grain trade opportunity op-portunity to discuss tho proposed standards. The hearings will be held as follows: March 14, Philadelphia; March 16, Indianapolis; March 18, Kansas City, Mo.; March 18, Spokae; March 21, Minneapolis. Change in the former standards is largely due to war conditions which havo brought about fixed prices for wheat and substantial elimination of competition in its marketing. Milling and baking industries havo been put upon a new basis. "Under present abnormal ab-normal conditions mixtures of different differ-ent classes' of wheat, admixtures of rye and other factors do not play so Important a part in the marketing of wheat as underx pre-war conditions. nn " |