80-4-301. Standard classes of mustard seed -- grade requirements. (1) The standard classes of mustard seed for the state of Montana shall be as follows:
(a) fancy--cultivated tame yellow mustard seed;
(b) class 1--cultivated tame yellow mustard seed;
(c) class 2--cultivated tame brown mustard seed;
(d) class 3--cultivated tame Montana oriental mustard seed;
(e) class 4--mixed cultivated tame mustard seed.
(2) Classes 1, 2, and 3 shall contain not more than 5% of other classes. Class 4 shall be any mixture of cultivated tame mustard seed having an admixture of other classes in excess of 5% and shall be graded according to the predominating class in the mixture.
(3) Grade requirements for cultivated tame mustard seed (percentage figures determined after the removal of dockage):
GRADE NUMBER
Fancy 1 2 3
Sound cultivated mustard
not less than 99% 98 1/2% 97% 95%
Damaged kernels
heat-damaged 0 0.1% 0.2% 0.5%
Total 1% 1 1/2% 3 % 5 %
Other classes
wild mustard 0 0.1% 0.2% 0.5%
Total 0 0.5% 2.0% 5.0%
Foreign material other
than dockage
Cockle seed 0 0.1% 0.2% 0.3%
Weed seed 0 0.3% 0.5% 0.7%
Total 0 1 % 1 1/2% 2 %
Sample: Sample grade shall include mustard seed which does not come within the requirements of any of the grades, No. 1 to No. 3, inclusive, or which has any objectionable foreign odor or is sour, heating, hot, or is otherwise of distinctly low quality or contains small, inseparable stones or cinders.
History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 35, L. 1941; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 170, L. 1957; amd. Sec. 20, Ch. 13, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 3-1901.