The application of dockage in the marketing of wheat

"The attention of the Department of Agriculture has been directed to certain misunderstandings that have arisen among buyers and sellers of wheat in connection with the assessment of dockage in the buying of wheat by grade in some sections of the country since the official grain standards of the United States for wheat became effective. Dealers in some localities where the factor of dockage was not a part of the grading system in the past have adopted certain unfair practices which they have alleged have been made necessary by reason of the inclusion of the factor of dockage in the official grain standards of the United States for wheat under the United States grain standards Act. It is believed, however, that most of the trouble which has arisen is the result of unfamiliarity with the application of the dockage principle and will disappear as soon as its use is more clearly understood. The purpose of this bulletin is to explain clearly to the grain farmers and dealers of the country that the methods of determining dockage and its relation to the marketing of wheat under the United States grain standards Act."--Page 3.