656 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



secretary of state, furnished by the government of the United States. It shalJ 

 be divided into three equal parts called feet, and each foot into twelve equal parts 

 called inches, and for the measure of cloths and other commodities commonly sold 

 by the yard, it may be divided into halves, quarters, eighths and sixteenths. The 

 rod, pole or perch shall contain live and a half such yards, and the mile, one thou- 

 sand seven hundred and sixty such yards. 



LAIND MEASURE. 



Sec. 3011. The acre for land measure shall be measured horizontally an(J 

 contain ten square chains, and be equivalent in area to a rectangle sixteen rods in 

 length and ten in breadth, six hundred and forty such acres being contained in a 

 square mile. Tne chain for measuring laiiQ shall be twenty-two yards long, and divided 

 into one hundre l eqral parts, called links. 



WEIGHTS. 



Sec. 3012. The units or standards of weight, from which all other weights 

 shall be derived and ascertained, shall be the standard avoirdupois and troy 

 weights, as furnished this state by the United States. The avoirdupois pounds 

 which bears to the troy pound the ratio of seven thousand to five thousand seven 

 hundred and sixty, shall be divided into sixteen equal parts called ounces : the hun- 

 dred weight shall consist of one hundred avoirdupois pounds, and twenty hundred 

 weight shall constitute a ton. The troy ounce shall be equal to the twelfth part 

 of a troy pound. 



LIQUIDS. 



Sec. 3013. The unit or standard measure of capacity for liquids. fron> 

 which all other measures of liquids shall be derived and ascertained, shall be the 

 standard gallon and its parts, as furnished this state by the government of the Uni- 

 ted States. The inch or gauge of cream shall be one half of a standard gallon. 

 The barrel shall be thirty-one and a half gallons, and two barrels shall constitute 

 a hogshead. 



SUBSTANCES NOT LIQUIDS. 



Sec. 3014. The unit or standard measure of capacity for substances noc 

 liquids, from which all other measures of such substances shall be derived and as- 

 certained, shall be the standard half-bushel, furnished this state by the United 

 States, and the peck, half-peck, quarter-peck, quart and pint measures, for meas- 

 uring commodities not liquids, shall be derived from the half-bushel by succes- 

 sively dividing that measure by two. 



BUSHEL BY WEIGHT. 



Sec. 3016. A bushel of the respective articles hereafter mentioned will 

 mean the amount of weight in this section specified : 



Wheat sixty pounds. 



Shelled corn fifty-six pounds. 



Corn on the cob seveny pounds. 



Rye fifty-six pounds. 



Oats thirty-two pounds. 



Barley forty-eight pounds. 



Potatoes sixty pounds. 



Beans sixty pounds. 



Bran twenty pounds. 



Clover seed sixty pounds. 



Timothy seed forty-five pounds. 



Flax seed fifty-six pounds. 



Hemp seed forty-four pounds. 



