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 1144 Peanut meal. Notice of amounts available for sale. Commodity Credit Corporation re p re - sentative. Soyabean oil; pea- nut oil. INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [57 STAT. heating or weevily, which does not have any commercially objection- able foreign odor, which is No. 3 or better Yellow Flint Corn and will at least meet the requirements for No. 3 Yellow Flint Corn as defined in the official Grain Standards of the United States. The definition for No. 3 Yellow Flint Corn is as follows: "The corn shall be shelled, free from weevils, and shall weigh not less than 51 pounds per bushel. It shall contain not more than 4 per cent of cracked corn and foreign material, not more than a total of 7 per cent of damaged kernels of which not more than 0.5 per cent may be heat-damaged and shall not contain more than 17.5 per cent of moisture." 4. The Government of the United States through its agency, the Commodity Credit Corporation, or its nominee, agrees to purchase from July 1, 1943 to July 1, 1945, the entire exportable surplus of peanut meal produced in the Dominican Republic upon the following basis: Commodity Credit Corporation will pay $35.00 United States Currency per short ton (2000 U.S. pounds) for peanut meal, f.a .s. vessel, or warehouse designated by Commodity Credit Corporation, at Monte Cristi, Puerto Plata, San Pedro de Macoris, La Romana, Sanchez or Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic. The port of delivery shall be the one designated by Commodity Credit Corpora- tion. Peanut meal will be accepted which is prepared in accordance with good commercial practice by the expeller or hydraulic process, and shall be finely ground and free from lumps. The meal shall contain not less than 50 per cent of protein (NX6.25), calculated on a moisture free basis, and shall contain not more than 10.0 per cent of moisture. (Meal containing 50 per cent of protein calculated on a moisture free basis is equivalent to meal containing 45 per cent of protein on a 10 per cent moisture basis.) For peanut meal containing less than 50 per cent protein, Commodity Credit Corporation shall pay 75 cents a ton less for each percentage point or fraction thereof less than 50 per cent. Peanut meal shall be delivered in sound usable bags, the cost of which is included in the price. Official shipped weights shall be final. All acceptances shall be subject to inspection by an approved representative of Commodity Credit Corporation. 5. The Government of the Dominican Republic through its appro- priate agency agrees to transmit to the Commodity Credit Corporation or its representative on January 1, April 1, July 1, and October 1 of each year for the duration of this Memorandum, written statements as to the amount of rice, corn, and peanut meal which it expects to have available for sale to the Commodity Credit Corporation for the three months' period immediately following. 6. A representative of the Commodity Credit Corporation will be stationed in the Dominican Republic to make the purchases of rice, corn, and peanut meal on the bases hereinbefore stated. The Domin- ican Government agrees to give this representative adequate notice as to the quantities of the foregoing commodities available for sale and to inform the representative whenever there exist exportable surpluses of soyabean oil or of peanut oil.

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