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Wheat. See CORN; QUOTA. The (English) Wheat Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 24), was passed to secure to registered growers of wheat grown in the United Kingdom a standard price and a market, and to provide payments by millers and importers of flour by reference to a quota of home-grown wheat and to provide for the purchase by the Flour Millers Corporation representing such millers of unsold stocks of such wheat up to 12' per cent. of the anticipated home-grown supply at the fair market price in the locality....
Entire wheat
Designating made of or relating to flour including a considerable part of the bran whole wheat...
maccaroni wheat
A type of wheat Triticum durum with hard dark colored kernels high in gluten and used for bread and pasta grown especially in South Russia North Africa and North central North America...
Corn Production Act, 1917 (English)
Corn Production Act, 1917 (English), was an Act for encouraging the production of corn, and provided, inter alia, for State payments to growers where the average price of wheat or oats fell below a minimum. It was amended by the Agricultural Act, 1920, and repealed by the Corn Production Acts (Repeal) Act, 1921. As to the Wheat Commission, Fund and Quota, see the Wheat Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 24); and see CORN SALES ACT, 1921....
Corn-rent
Corn-rent. A rent paid either in corn, or on a sliding scale in accordance with the price of corn. See Kendall v. baker, (1852) 11 CB 842. It was directed by18 Eliz. C. 6, that one-third of the whole rent then paid on college leases should be reserved in wheat or malt, reserving a quarter of wheat for each 6s. 8d., or a quarter of malt for every 5s.; or that the lessees should pay the same according to the price that wheat or malt should be sold for in the market next to the respective colleges; but this Act, though specially saved by s. 7 of the (English) Ecclesiastical Leases Act, 1800 (39 & 40 Geo. 3, c. 41), was repealed by the (English) Universities and College Estates Act, 1925....
Groats
Dried grain as oats or wheat hulled and broken or crushed in high milling cracked fragments of wheat larger than grits...
Corn Sales Act, 1921 (English)
Corn Sales Act, 1921 (English), provides, with cer-tain exceptions, that all sales of corn (i.e., wheat, barley, oats, rye, maize, and the bran and meal therefrom) shall be by weight and in terms of and by reference to the one hundred weight of 112 imperial standard pounds, otherwise transactions are null and void. The Act also applies to dried peas, dried beans, linseed and potatoes, and to the seeds of grass, clover, vetches, Swedes, field turnips, rape, filed cabbages, field kale, field kohl-rabi, mangels, beet and sugarbeet, flax and sainfoin. By s. 5 ibid. the price and value under any Act, award, or instrument of an imperial bushel shall have effect as if the price or value were calculated on that of sixty imperial pounds of wheat, fifty of barley and thirty nine of oats....
Lammas
Lammas [said to be derived from a custom by which the tenants of the Archbishop of York were obliged, at the time of Mass, on the 1st of August, to bring a live lamb to the altar. In Scotland they are said to wear lambs on this day. It may be corrupted from latter-math. Others derive it from a Saxon word, signifying loaf-mass, because on that day our forefathers made an offering of bread composed of new wheat], the gule or 1st of August, and the second of the four cross quarter-days of the year, Encyc. Londin.; Wheat. Com. Pr....
Tithe Rent-Charge
Tithe Rent-Charge. A charge on land, substituted by commutation for that charge on the produce of the land for the benefit of the Church, which was called tithe from being the tenth part of the increase yearly arising and renewing from the profits of lands, the stock upon lands, and the personal industry of the inhabitants; the first species being usually called pr'dial, the second mixed, the third personal.This commutation was effected by a procedure set on foot by the (English) Tithe Act, 1836 (6 & 7 Wm. 4, c. 71), amended by subsequent Acts. See Chitty's Stat., tit. 'Tithe Rent-Charge.' The amount to be paid was annually adjusted, according to the price of corn.The commutation was effected in one of two ways-either by a voluntary parochial agreement, con-firmed by the commissioners, or by the compulsory award of the commissioners. The value, either voluntarily agreed upon or awarded by the commissioners, was considered as the amount of the total rent-charge to be paid in respect of ...
bulk
bulk : a large mass in bulk 1 : not divided into parts or packaged in separate units 2 : in large quantities adj 1 : being in bulk [ shipment of wheat] [ foods] 2 : of or relating to materials in bulk [ buyer] ...
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