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REGISTER

FEDERAL
VOLUME I

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Washington
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, Wednesday, March
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.
By virtue of the authority vested in the Secretary of Agriculture by the provision in the Act of Congress entitled "An Act Making Appropriations for the Department of Agriculture and for the Farm Credit Administration for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, and for other pur poses , approved May 17, 1935 49 Stat. 247, I, H. A. W al lace, Secretary of Agriculture, do hereby fix, establish, and promulgate in lieu of all existing standards for hay and straw the following standards of quality and condition for Alfalfa and A lfalfa Mixed Hay; Timothy and Clover Hay;
Prairie Hay; Johnson and Johnson Mixed Hay; Grain, Wild Oat, Vetch, and Grain Mixed Hay; Lespedeza-and Lespedeza Mixed Hay; Soybean and Soybean Mixed Hay; Grass Hay; Mixed Hay; and Straw, which shall be in force and effect on and after April 1, 1936, and so long as Congress shall provide the necessary authority therefor, unless amend ed or superseded by standards hereafter prescribed and promulgated under such authority.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the official seal of the Department of Agriculture to be affixed in the City of Washington this 11th day of Jan uary, 1936.
H. A. W a l l a c e , Secretary.
S tandards for H a y
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For the purposes of the official hay standards of the United States:
Hay shall be the harvested, unthreshed herbage of those kinds of forage plants which have recognized feed value as determined by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, United States Department of Agriculture; which herbage meets the requirements of the various classes in Groups I to IX , inclusive, is not coarse and woody, and does not contain more than 35 percent of foreign material.
Groups. Hay for which there are standards shall be divided into nine groups as follows: Group I, A lfalfa and Alfalfa Mixed Hay; Group II, Timothy aftd Clover Hay;
Group m , Prairie Hay; Group IV, Johnson and Johnson Mixed Hay; Group V, Grain, W ild Oat, Vetch, and Grain Mixed Hay; Group VI, Lespedeza and Lespedeza Mixed Hay;
Group V II, Soybean and Soybean Mixed Hay; Group V H I, Grass Hay; and Group IX , Mixed Hay.
Classes. Each group of hay includes one or more classes which are based on the kind of hay or mixture of various kinds and have no reference whatever to quality or condition.
Grades. Each class of hay is graded according to the grade requirements of the three numerical grades and Sam1The specifications of these standards shall not excuse failure to comply with the provisions of the Pood and Drugs Act.

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pie grade of the group under which it falls and according to the special grades which are applicable.
The following definitions are applicable to all groups of hay and terms used in the class and grade requirements are interpreted according to these definitions.
Alfalfa may include not to exceed 10 percent o f the total hay of clover, vetch, and/or other forage legumes, except that alfalfa shall not have a percentage allowance of clover in the class A lfalfa Clover Mixed.
Tim othy may include not to exceed 10 percent o f the total hay of other grasses, except in the classes Timothy Light Grass Mixed and Timothy Heavy Grass Mixed.
Clover shall be red clover, alsike clover, and/or white clover and may include not to exceed 10 percent of the total hay of alfalfa, vetch, and/or other forage legumes, except that clover shall not have a percentage allowance of alfalfa in the class Alfalfa Clover Mixed.
Upland grasses shall be bluestems Andropogon spp., gamagrasses Bouteloua spp., paspalum Paspalum spp., wheatgrasses Agropyron spp., prairie Junfegrass Koeleria cristata, Indian grass Sorghastrum nutane, and/or other upland grasses2which grow commonly in virgin upland prai rie meadows. Upland grasses may include not to exceed 10
percent of the total hay of midland grasses and/or other grasses, except that upland grasses shall not have a percent age allowance of midland grasses in the classes Midland Prairie and Upland-Midland Prairie Mixed.
Midland grasses shall be slough grass or prairie cord grass Spartina pectinata, bluejoint Calamagrostis spp., and/or sprangle top Fluminea festucacea.
Grasses unless otherwise specifically provided for shall include a redtop, orchard grass, Kentucky bluegrass, Canada bluegrass, crabgrass, smooth bromegrass, ryegrass, barnyard grass, quackgrass, paspalum, Bermuda grass, and wheatgrasses? b the following grasses if early cut, wildrye, annual bromegrasses such as cheat, pigeongrass some times called foxtail or wild m illet, and broomsedge; c such other cultivated and wild grasses, sedges, and rushes as occur in hay meadows; d not to exceed 10 percent of the total hay of timothy, Johnson grass, and/or grain hay.
Johnson grass may include not to exceed 10 percent of the total hay of other grasses and 10 percent of the total h a y o f early cut cane hay, except that Johnson grass shall not have a percentage allowance of other grasses in the classes Johnson Light Grass Mixed and Johnson Heavy Grass Mixed.
Oat hay shall be hay of all varieties of tame oats which does not meet the requirements of red oat hay, and may include not to exceed 10 percent of the total hay of wheat 2Questions relating to, or samples,, of the kinds of grasses that may be included in upland grasses should be submitted to the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, United States Department of Agriculture, for determination or interpretation.

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