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(this does not relate to a cart load, but is the 

 name given to a basket which holds three 

 bushels of beans), peck, punnet, pottle, pip, 

 pots, tally. Here is u confusion worse con- 

 founded " to the novice ! ! Why must we 

 continue this involved and intricate system, 

 when the metric would give simplicity itself, 

 after we were once accustomed to it ? By 

 way of parenthesis, at a Conference lately 

 held in Worcester under the auspices of 

 the Agricultural Organisation Society, one 

 speaker in condemning the much abused 

 u pot " quoted a story of a salesman making 

 three fair-sized "pots" out of two, but of 

 course only paying the grower for two. 

 This slipshod system of dealing with fruit 

 and other produce necessarily offers ample 

 scope for abuse. 



It is extraordinary what an amount of Marketing 

 knowledge one picks up by hard practical 

 experience, but to the beginner the way is 

 hard. In May 1900, at a meeting of the 

 Lady Warwick Agricultural Association for 



