The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-30
Weight of Farm Products Per Bushel.

In reply to an inquiry, we would say
that the weights of farm products vary
considerably in the different states.
In Massachusetts the statutes fix the
weight of few of the leading farm
products as follows:
Wheat and potatoes, each 60 pounds;
corn and rye, So pounds; onions, 50
pounds; barley and buckwheat, As
pounds; all kinds of meal, except oat-
meal, 30 pounds; oats 80 pounds; nuts,
cranberries and all other berries must
be sold by dry measure, level. A bar
rel of cranberries must contain 100
quarts. a bushel of wheat weighs
60 pounds in all the states except Con-
necticut, where the legal weight is Sc
pounds, though it is presumable that
custom makes 60 pounds the standard
there as elsewhere. Rye weighs 56
pounds in all the states except Illinois,
where "a pounds makes legal bushel.
Corn in New York must weigh IS
pounds to be legal weight; in Missouri,
so pounds; So pounds in all the other
states. Oats in Canada must weigh "a
pounds; in Iowa, 80 pounds; in New
Jersey, 30 pounds; in Connecticut, %
pounds. and in all the other states 80
pounds. Barley weighs AZ pounds in
Pennsylvania; Al pounds in Illinois:
46 pounds in Vermont, and As pounds
in all the other states.
Buckwheat varies in legal weight in
different states from 40 pounds in Hi
nois to 80 pounds in Indiana and SO
pounds in Iowa and Kentucky. In
New Jersey and Ohio clover seed must
weigh GA pounds per bushel; in the
other states and Canada, GO pounds.
Timothy seed must weigh A pounds in
New York; AS pounds in Canada; in
other states, 40 pounds, except Ohio,
where the legal weight is AZ pounds.
Flax seed weighs SO pounds in New
York and New Jersey and So pounds
in other states where it is sold by
weight. Hemp seed weighs A pounds;
Blue grass and orchard grass, each IA
pounds, and red top, 10 pounds.
The legal weight for potatoes is 60
pounds in all the states where they are
sold by weight. The same is true of
peas and beans, except that the latter
are sold in Ohio at So pounds to the
bushel and in New York at 60 pounds.
Onions must weigh 81 pounds in New
pounds in Rhode Island.
The above figures have been taken
from tables supposed to be correct at
the time they were published, which
was but few years ago. 1t is quite
probable that the legal weight of a
bushel has been changed in several of
the states since the tables were pre-
pared. 1t would seem to be very de-
sirable to have more uniform stand
ard, and the tendency of trade is to-
wards uniformity, the different legal
standards of the several states being
more or less ignored by dealers. The
GENITAL or hundred weight system is also
being used quite generally in the sale
of grain, shorts, cOtton-seed meal, cider
apples and some other commodities.
One of our Boston seedsmen informs
us that among dealers the recognized
weight of bushel is quite uniform
through the United States and Canada.
Wheat is sold everywhere at GO pounds
to the bushel rye and corn, So pounds;
barley, As pounds; oats, 32 pounds /;
millet, both the white and the German,
so pounds; Hungarian grass, As pounds
pea beans, GA pounds, and larger sizes,
60 pounds; hard peas, go pounds, and
soft or wrinkled peas usually by meas
ure: timothy grass weighs As pounds;
clover, 60 pounds; orchard grass and
blue grass, each IA pounds, and red-top,
10 pounds.-Neec England Farmer.