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Millet, Japanese barnyard, thirty-five pounds (Massachusetts). 



Mustard, thirty pounds (Tennessee). 



Plums, forty pounds (Florida) ; sixty-four pounds (Tennessee). 



Plums, dried, twenty-eight pounds (Michigan). 



Popcorn, seventy pounds (Indiana and Tennessee) ; in the ear, 

 forty-two pounds (Ohio). 



Prunes, dried, twenty-eight pounds (Idaho) ; green, forty-five 

 pounds (Idaho). 



Quinces, forty-eight pounds (Florida, Iowa, and Tennessee). 



Rape seed, fifty pounds (Wisconsin). 



Raspberries, thirty-two pounds (Kansas) ; forty-eight pounds (Ten- 

 nessee). 



Rhubarb, fifty pounds (Tennessee). 



Sage, four pounds (Tennessee). 



Salads, thirty pounds (Tennessee). 



Sand, 130 pounds (Iowa). 



Spelt or Spiltz, forty pounds (North Dakota) ; forty-five pounds 

 (South Dakota). 



Spinach, thirty pounds (Tennessee). 



Strawberries, thirty-two pounds (Iowa) ; forty-eight pounds (Ten- 

 nessee). 



Sugar-cane seed, fifty-seven pounds (New Jersey). 



Velvet-grass seed, seven pounds (Tennessee). 



Walnuts, fifty pounds (Tennessee). 



Other articles. 



One bushel of house ashes (wood) is calculated to weigh forty-eight 

 pounds; ground gypsum, seventy pounds (see p. 533, under land- 

 plaster) ; sand, 1222 pounds. 



For lime, see pp. 78, 536 ; cement, pp. 504, 505. 



Legal weights of seeds and grains in Canada. 



Section 90 of the Inspection and Sale Act of the Department of 

 Agriculture for the Dominion of Canada, dealing with the legal weights 

 of farm products, reads as follows : — 



In contracts for the sale and delivery of any of the undermentioned 

 articles a bushel shall be determined by weighing, unless a bushel by 



