LEGAL WEIGHTS OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS "These tables show the weights in pounds per bushel legally established for various products by the several states and (for customs purposes) by Congress. The lack of agreement between the weights thus locally established is greatly to be regretted; they are published here exactly as they appear in the statutes. The local weights for the more common commodities, such as wheat, corn, and oats, are fairly uniform, but even these do not agree with the weights of Standard United States bushel measures of the respective products. In many cases, moreover, in which the weight of the bushel is fixed by law, purchase and sale are also permitted by capacity measures, which deliver quantities differing from those based on the legal weights." Since these figures were compiled, Indian and Oklahoma territories have been combined, and it is not known to what extent the figures now apply in the new state.
List of products for which legal weights have been fixed in but one or two states : Apple seeds, 40 pounds (Rhode Island and Ten nessee).
Beggarweed seed, 62 pounds (Florida).
Blackberries, 32 pounds (Iowa); 48 pounds (Ten nessee); dried, 28 pounds (Tennessee).
Blueberries, 42 pounds (Minnesota).
Bromus inermis, 14 pounds (North Dakota).
Cabbage, 50 pounds (Tennessee).
Canary seed, 60 pounds (Tennessee).
Cantaloupe melon, 50 pounds (Tennessee).
Cherries, 40 pounds (Iowa); with stems, 56 pounds (Tennessee); without stems, 64 pounds (Tennessee).
Chestnuts, 50 pounds (Tennessee); 57 pounds (Virginia).
Chuf a, 54 pounds (Florida).
Cotton seed, staple, 42 pounds (South Carolina).
Cucumbers, 48 pounds (Missouri and Tennes see); 50 pounds (Wisconsin).
Currants, 40 pounds (Iowa and Minnesota).
Feed, 50 pounds (Massachusetts).
Grapes, 40 pounds (Iowa); with stems, 48 pounds (Tennessee); without stems, 60 pounds (Ten nessee).
Guavas, 5-1 pounds (Florida).
Hickory nuts, 50 pounds (Tennessee).
Hominy, 60 pounds (Ohio); 62 pounds (Tennes see).
Horseradish, 50 pounds (Tennessee).
Italian rye-grass seed, 20 pounds (Tennessee).
Johnson-grass, 28 pounds (Arkansas).
Kafir, 56 pounds (Kansas).
Kale, 30 pounds (Tennessee).
Land-plaster, 100 pounds (Tennessee).
Meal (?), 46 pounds (Alabama ; unbolted, 48 pounds (Alabama).
Middlings, fine, 40 pounds (Indiana); coarse mid dlings, 30 pounds (Indiana).
Millet, Japanese barnyard, 35 pounds (Massa chusetts).
Mustard, 30 pounds (Tennessee).
Plums, 40 pounds (Florida); 64 pounds (Ten nessee).
Plums, dried, 28 pounds (Michigan).
Popcorn, 70 pounds (Indiana and Tennessee); in the ear, 42 pounds (Ohio).
Prunes, dried, 28 pounds (Idaho); green, 45 pounds (Idaho).
Quinces, 48 pounds (Florida, Iowa, and Tennes see).
Rape seed, 50 pounds (Wisconsin).
Raspberries, 32 pounds (Kansas); 48 pounds (Tennessee).
Rhubarb, 50 pounds (Tennessee).
Sage, 4 pounds (Tennessee).
Salads, 30 pounds (Tennessee).
Sand, 130 pounds (Iowa).
Spelt or Spiltz, 40 pounds (North Dakota); 45 pounds (South Dakota).
Spinach, 30 pounds (Tennessee).
Strawberries, 32 pounds (Iowa); 48 pounds (Ten nessee).
Sugar-cane seed, 57 pounds (New Jersey).
Velvet-grass seed, 7 pounds (Tennessee).
Walnuts, 50 pounds (Tennessee).
H. 90 of the Inspection and Sale Act of the Department of Agriculture for the Dominion of Canada, dealing with the legal weights of farm products, reads as follows : "In contracts for the sale and delivery of any of the undermentioned articles a bushel shall be determined by weighing, unless a bushel by measure is specially agreed upon, and the weight equiv alent to a bushel shall, except as hereinafter pro vided, be as follows : Pounds Barley 48 Buckwheat 48 Flaxseed 56 Indian corn 56 Oats 34 Pease 60 Rye 56 Wheat 60 Section 337 reads as follows : " In contracts for the sale and delivery of any of the undermentioned articles the bushel shall be determined by weighing, unless a bushel by meas ure is specially agreed upon, and the weight .xmivalent to a bushel shall be as follows : Pounds Beans 60 Beets 60 Blue-grass seed 14 Carrots 60 Castor-beans 40 Clover seed 60 Hemp seed 44 Malt 36 Onions 50 Parsnips 60 Potatoes 60 Timothy seed 48 Turnips 60 " In the province of Quebec when potatoes are sold or offered for sale by the bag, the bag shall contain at least 80 pounds." Fruit packages.