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WEIGUTS AND MEASURES. 



We have comparecl and corrected the following table of weights and raeapures 

 witli the standard fixed by the general assembly of Illinois. We publish it 

 with the hope that other States will unite in an adherence to the weights as fixed 

 by a State producing and selling so great quantities of agricultural products, 

 much of which is consumed in the eastern States. 



Box measures are very useful in measuring corn in the ear, and the "barrel" 

 in the west is five bushels. 



But California has set an example worthy of imitation by excluding bushels 

 and selling and priciui,- agricultural pi'oducts by weight alone. Its quotations 

 are by thj pound, or one hundred pounds. This is a much simpler plan thia to 

 be vexed with bushels, having, as in the table below, a diifereut weight for the 

 bushel for nearly every commodity. 



Article. Weight per bushel. 



Wheat 6U 



Shelled coi n 45 



Corn in the ear 70 



Peas 60 



Eye 56 



Oats 3-2 



Barley 47 



Irish potatoes 60 



Sweet potatoes 55 



White beans 60 



Castor beans 46 



Clover seed 60 



Timothy seed ." 45 



Flax seed 56 



Hemp seed 44 



Article. 'Weight per bushel. 



Blue-grass seed 14 



Buckwheat 52 



Dried peaches 38 



Dried apples 24 



Onions 57 



Salt. . . . : 50 



Stone coal 80 



Malt 38 



Bran iiO 



Turnips ' 55 



Plastering; hair 8 



Unslacked lime 80 



Corn meal 48 



Fine salt 55 



Ground peas 24 



A box 24 by 16 inches, 22 deep, contains 1 barrel; a box 16 by 16^ iucbes, 8 deep, con- 

 tains 1 bushel ; a box 8 by Si inclies, 8 deep, contains 1 peck ; a box 4 by 4 inches, 4^ deep, 

 contains halt' gallon ; a box 4 by 4 inches, '2^ deep, contains 1 quart.*"- 



Ten gallons pickled onions, 83 pounds; ten gallons sour krout, 81 pounds. 



RAILROAD FREIGHTS FROM CHICAGO. 



The following table exhibits some reduction on the railroad freights from Chi- 

 cago from the table published in our last report. The reduction is not at all as 

 great as it shou d be : 



Memphis and New Orleans fourth-class freight to Memphis, via Illinois Cen- 

 tral railroal and river, 60 cents, and to Naw Orleans 65 cents ; flour to the 

 same points, $1 30 and $1 35 per barrel respectively. 



