The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-09-07
PROSECUTIONS ARE PROMISED
Dealers III all Commodities Will be
Forced to obey the New Weights
and Measures Laws to the Very Let
ter at once.


which revolutionizes the mode by
which dealers portion out their COM
modities, are being taken daily, and
the law is being printed in pamphlet
form and will be supplied in few
DAYS to dealers and others interested.
Hereafter the use Of unsealed weights
and measures except where notice Oh
new devices has been given the super
inCendent after the last visit OF the
inspector, will make the offender liable
to fine or Imprisonment,
Every city over 5000 must have
city sealer. Frank E. Doty, secretary
OF the civil service commission, will
receive applications of candidates for
appointment as city sealer. His APP
pointment will be made from the eligi-
BILE list by the mayor, and the council
will determine his salary. He is pro-
hibited from exacting any fees. He
must be provided with an Office and
set of working standards. In cities of
the first, second aud third classes, it is
expected he shall devote all his time
to the work, for the law requires him
to inspect and seal all weights, meas
ures devices Of every kind in use in
the city at least once year, as well
as to maintain espionage on dealers to
see they are giving correct weights on
scales that have been scaled.
1t is his duty also to see that all
peddlers give correct weight, to watch
the ice man and the coal man, to de-
mand that the milklaan sell from full
measure on bottles. lie repairs are
possible scales will be condemned for
such time as is needed for the repairs.
The sealer must keep complete rec.
ord of his work and make an annual
report to the state superintendent Of
weights and measures and also to the
mayor, and he is under bond to per
form his duties faithfully.
The enforcement Of the act is given
to the state dairy and food commits
sioner, at present J. Q. Emery, who is
made ex-oficio state superintendent of
weights and measures. Fred G. Down
ing is chief inspector of weights and
measures, and is entering upon an ener-
getic campaign to secure square deal
for the Wisconsin consuming public.
Both these officials are firm in their
conviction that the new law is a pro-
lection to the merchant as we'll as to
consumer. The honest merchants as
rule are heartily in favor of it. Mr..
Downing found many Madison dealers
have been using scales by which they
have been cheating themselves, and
many others their customers.
Unless by written agreement TO the
contrary, certain specified articles
must be sold by weight only, to be
computed as follows:
Sixty pounds for bushel of wheat,
peas, potatoes, clover seed or beans;
81 pounds for bushel of onions; Sc
pounds for Indian corn, rye, lima beans,
wrinkled peas, faxseed, rutabagas or
tomatoes; 81 pounds for bushel of
sweet potatoes; so pounds for corn
meal rape seed, millet seed, beets,
green cucumbers, apples, rye meal, car
rots, buckwheat, hickory nuts or fine
salt; as pounds for barley or Hun
garian grass seed; 46 pounds for
castor beans; rs pounds foE timo-
for castor beans; As pounds for timo-
thy seed or rough rice; A pounds for
hemp seed, parsnips, or sea island cot
ton seed; AZ pounds for turnips; 50
pounds for cranberries; 81 pounds for
barley malt; SO pounds for dried
peaches; 80 pounds for oats; 80
pounds for upland cotton, seed; %
pounds for dried apples; 90 pounds for
bran or shorts; 20 pounds for coarse
salt or lime; so pounds for unslaked
lime; pounds for pla stering hair;
1900 pounds for a cord of hemlock
bark.
All dry commodities not otherwise
specified in the act may be bought or
sold only by standard dry measures,
standard weight, or numerical count
except where the parties have an agree
menut in writing. Where articles are
sold by heap measure they must be
heaped as high as possible without
special effort or design.
Milk bottles must hold the capacity
indicated, to be blown in the bottle
together with the word sealed and
the initials or trade mark of the man
ufacturer, and designating number
furnished by the state superintendent
of weights and measures. Bottles now
IN use may be continued if they have
been pronounced accurate by the seal
er. All bottles manufacturers supply
Ing bottles for Wisconsin trade must
deposit bond of $1,000 with the at
tOrney general.