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30. Miscellaneous Legal Weights per Bushel. 



BEETS, MANGELS, and RUTA BAGAS : 60 pounds in Maine, 

 Vermont, Connecticut ; 56 in Wisconsin ; 50 in Missouri. CAR- 

 ROTS : 50 pounds in Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, 

 Missouri, Montana ; 55 in Connecticut. PARSNIPS : 45 pounds 

 in Connecticut ; 44 in Wisconsin, Missouri ; 50 in Montana ; 

 55 in Indiana. BOTTOM ONION SETS, 36 pounds in Kentucky. 

 RICE CORN, 56 pounds in Kansas. BERRIES, 32 pounds in 

 Rhode Island. CHERRIES, GRAPES, CURRANTS, GOOSEBERRIES, 

 40 pounds in Iowa. BLACKBERRIES, STRAWBERRIES, RASP- 

 BERRIES, 32 pounds in Iowa. PEACHES, QUINCES, 48 pounds 

 in Iowa. DRIED PEACHES : 33 pounds in Massachusetts ; 

 39 in Kentucky. DRIED PLUMS, 28 pounds in Michigan. 

 CRANBERRIES, 40 pounds in Michigan. " WILD PEACHES," 33 

 pounds in Ohio. In the DAKOTA s, a bushel of wheat is 60 

 pounds ; corn, 56 pounds ; buckwheat, 42 pounds ; onions, 52 

 pounds ; potatoes, 60 pounds ; turnips, 60 pounds ; sweet pota- 

 toes, 46 pounds. In RHODE ISLAND, WISCONSIN, WASHINGTON, 

 and MONTANA, a bushel of ROOT CROPS is 50 pounds. 



31. Miscellaneous Legal Sizes. 



The heap bushel contains 2564 cubic inches in Connecticut 

 and Kansas ; 2150.42 inches in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, 

 Nebraska, Tennessee, Missouri, Washington. 



The bushel measure must be 19 \ inches in outside diameter, 

 the half -bushel 15^ inches, the peck 12 \ inches, in New York 

 and California. 



The bushel measure must be 18^ inches in inside diameter, 

 the half -bushel 13| inches, the peck 10 f inches, and the half- 

 peck 9 inches, in New Hampshire and Minnesota. 



Produce sold by dry measure must be heaped as full as the 

 measure will hold in Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Min- 

 nesota, California, Oregon, and Washington. 



Heap measures must be cylindrical, with a plane bottom, in 

 New York and California. 



