The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-04-07
TABLE CONTAINS
CORRECT WEIGHT !
! OF ALL STAPLES
Housewives Ask Information
About Goods Most Com
monty Purchased for
Kitchen Use.

Housewives have asked for tables
giving official weights on staple goods
which they buy most frequently at the
grocery stores. The weights given be-
low are those authorized by the acts
of 1905:
Dried Apples-Bushel, Is u.s.; half
bushel, IL ms. 8 or; peck, 6 ms. 4 o.:
half peck. 3 ms. 2 or; quarter peck,
l ID. 9.oz.; quart t12h o..
Beans Bushel, 60 lbs.; half bushel
80 u.s.: peck. IL As.;g half peck. TVS.
o.; quarter peck, lbs. ~ o.; quart
b. II o.. --.
Beans Castor)-Bushel, IS rbs.:
half bushel, 20 MS: peck. IL TBS. o.;
half peck. lbs. IL OF. ;quarter peck,
2lbs.' II o.; quart, 10. OF.
Observation-Disclosures. so u.s.: half
bushel. 25fbs.; peck. IL lbs. o.:
half peck, lbs. o.; quarter peck,
sfhs. 2 o.; quart: ]. ID. 8 OF.
Coal, Mineral-Bushel.. 80 lbs.
Corn Meal-Bushel, 50 fbs.; half
bQshel. 26fb g.; peck. IL lbs. s o.;
half peck lbs. 4 o.: quarter peck.
8 lbs. 2 o.: quart. 10 9.oz.
Corn. Pop-Bushel. 56 u.s.; half
bushel. % ibs.; peck, IA lbs; half
peck . u.s.. quarter peck, 3fbs. 8 o.;
quart, / ID. IL OF.
Corn lin, ear until December D.
Bushel, 20 fbs.; half bushel IS lbs.;
peck, II fbs. 8 o.; half peck, TBS.
IL or; quarter peck, 4 lbs. o.; quart
lbs. 3 OF. ...,-,~
Corn lin ear after December u
Bushel. s. lbs.; half bushel.. "a fbs.;
peck. II MS; half: peck, lbs. 8 o.;
quarter peck, lbs. 4 o.; quart, 2ibs.
OF. .,..* .*I
Corn (shelled)- Bushel, Sc MS;
half ,bushel. % MS; 1peck, IA lbs; half
peck MS; quarter peck, 3 lbs. o.;
quart 10. 12 o.:
p. Cranberries-Bushel, SO MS; halt
bushel, Is lbs. 8 o.; peck 8. TBS. 4 o.;
half peck, 4 lbs. o.; quarter peck,
lbs. o.; quart ID. / OF.
Malt Rye-Bushel IS u.s.; half bush
el. II lbs 8 o.; peck 8 ms. IL o.;
half peck, 4 lbs. o.; quarter peck,
2 TBS. 3 o.; quart 1 10. ~ OF.
Middlings, fne-Bushel, 40 fbs:;
half bushel, 20 lbs.; peck, 10 lbs; half
peck. 5 fbs.; quarter peck, lbs. o.;
quart 10. 4 OF. ~
| Middlings. coarse-Bushel 80 u.s.:
half bushel, Ibis; peck, z TBS. o.;
half peck. lbs. IL o.; quarter peck,
/ H., IA ORR quart, Is o..
Oats-Bushel, 50 lbs; half bushel,
l6 MS; peck, 8 u.s.; half peck, 4 fbs.;
quarter peck, 2 fbs.; quart, / 10.
Onions-Bushel, 48 ibs.; half bush
ell, "a u.s.; peck, ~ fbs.; half peck,
6 ibs.; quarter peck, 8 u.s.: quart,
ID. s OF.
Usage orange-Bushel, SO lbs: half
buahel. 16 ms. 8 oz.;Apeck 8 lbs. 1 o.;
half peck, 4 fbs. 2 or; quarter peck,
2 lbs. o.; quart 1 lb. u OF.
Parsnips-Bushel. IS lbs.; half
bushel. q TBS. 8 o.; peck 13 TBS. ~
o.; half peck, 6 lbs. IA o.; quarter
peck, lbs. z o.; quart, 1 ID. III OF.
Peaches, dried-Bushel, 33 ros.; half
bushel. 16 TBS. 8 o.; peck, 8 fbs. o.;
half peck 4 lbs. 2 o.; quarter peck,
Q ms. l OF: quart. 1 10. II OF.
Potatoes-Bushel, 60 u.s.: half
bushel. 80 fbs.; peck, Is rbs.; half
peck, Z lbs. 8 o.. quarter peck. 3 lbs.
10 o.; quart, 1-fb. IA OF.
/ Potatoes, sweet-Bushel IS bs., half
bushel, 81 lbs. 8 o.; peck 10 lbs. IL
o.; half peck, 8 ms. IA o.; quarter
peck, 3 lbs. o.; quart. ID. liz OF.
~ibyS--CuSnSis % IUe.' udIt ouSucA'
% MS; peck, IA fbs.; half peck Z lbs. !;
quarter peck, lbs. 8 o.: quart ID.
II OF.
Salt-Bushel, so fbs.; half bushel
> Is lbs. peck. IL lbs. 8 o.; half peck,
6 lbs, 4 o.; quarter peck 3 lbs. 2 or. !;
quart, 10. 8 OF.
Seed, timothy-Bushel, As u.s.; halt
bushel,- % lbs. 8 o.; peck, II lbs.
o.; half peck, S lbs. 10 o.: quarter
peck, 2 lbs. 13 o.. quart, ID. 81z or
bushel, Fl ibs..s o., peck 10 lbs. Il
o.; half peck, lbs. IA o.: quarter
peck, 3 TBS. z o.; quart, 10. 11k o.
Wheat-Bushel go rbs.; hall
i. bushel, 80 ibs.; peck, Is lbs; halt
peck, lbs. o., quarter peck, lbs
!. IL o.; quart, / 10. IA OF. g..