n6 The Horticulturist's Rule- Book. 



3. Miscellaneous Legal Weights per Bushel. 



BEETS: 60 Ibs. in Maine, Vermont, Connecticut. CAR- 

 ROTS : 50 Ibs. in Maine and Vermont, 55 in Connecticut. 

 PARSNIPS: 45 Ibs. in Connecticut. SWEET POTATOES: 54 

 Ibs. in New Jersey, 46 in jDakota, 50 in Ohio, Kansas, Ne- 

 braska, 55 in Indiana, Kentucky, Texas, Georgia, 56 in Michi- 

 gan, Virginia, Missouri, 46 in Iowa. BERRIES : 32 Ibs. in 

 Rhode Island. CHERRIES, GRAPES, CURRANTS, GOOSEBERRIES, 

 weigh 40 Ibs. in Iowa. BLACKBERRIES, STRAWBERRIES, RASP- 

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

 DRIED PLUMS, 28 Ibs. in Michigan. CRANBERRIES, 40 Ibs. in 

 Michigan. " WILD PEACHES," 33 Ibs. in Ohio. 



4. Miscellaneous Legal Sizes. 



The heap bushel contains 2,564 cubic ins. in Connecticut and 

 Kansas; 2,150.42 ins. in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, 

 Tennessee, Missouri, Washington. 



The bushel measure must be 19^ ins. in outside diameter, 

 the half bushel 15^ ins., the peck 12^ ins. in New York and 

 California. 



The bushel measure must be 18^ ins. in inside diameter, 

 the half bushel 13% ins., the peck 10^ ins. and the half peck 

 9 ins., 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, 

 Minnesota, California, Oregon and Washington. 



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

 New York and California. 



The half-bushel is i3| ins. in interior diameter and 7^ ins. 

 deep in Ohio. It contains 1,075^ cubic ins. in Indiana. 



In New Jersey the cranberry box, to hold a bushel, must be 

 12x8^x22 ins. in the clear. 



In Wisconsin, cranberry packages must conform to the fol- 

 lowing sizes: "The legal and standard cranberry barrel in 

 this state shall be twenty-three and three-quarter inches high, 

 sixteen and one-fourth inches in diameter at the head, and 



