Excerpt from Legal Weights (in Pounds) Per Bushel of Various Commodities: Issued May 9, 1918 This circular simply shows the legal weights per bushel of various commodities, as fixed by national legislation mainly for customs purposes, or by State legislation for purposes of commerce Within the State. In many cases these. Weights differ considerably in the different States and in only rare instances, such as Wheat, oats, and peas, are the legal weights uniform throughout the entire country. It Will be noticed that for some commodities Which have, in the natural state, a husk'or pod, the weights per bushel in the various States differ from one another by as much as 100 per cent. This Wide discrepancy may be explained by the fact that it appears to be the practice in some States With regard to such commodities, to require that quantity for a bushel Which, When shelled, or husked and shelled (as the' case might be) Will make a struck bushel of the commodity, While ih. Other States only that quantity in its natural state, With the husk or pod included, Which Will fill a bushel measure; is taken for a bushel. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.