24 



the decimal system ought to be established. In time, Congress resetted our 

 currency; let it complete the \york by a like reformation of" weights and measures, 

 making, by its power over commerce, their standard that of the entire country. 



The difficulty of determining foreign measures and valttes causes our com- 

 mercial papers to make their qitotations as they hnd them in fbreigit market 

 prices ; and thus, what these prices are, is a matter that agriculturalists cannot 

 learn from the prices as stated. The Commissioner, therefore, has declared his 

 intention to give them in American measttres and values, that farmers may have 

 a knowledge of prices abroad. 



The following table will be useful to all persons having an interest in deter- 

 mining the most common of foreign measures, weights, and moneys. 



Tabic of foreign weights, measures, and money. 



' Grain and salt are sold by weight in the maritime places of China, t Like the pounds of the Zoll-vereln. 



