18 ENGINEERING ON THE FARM 



Legal Weights of Various Agricultural Products in the 



State of Minnesota 



Lb. Lb. 



per Bu. per Bu. 



Alfalfa seed 60 Oats 32 



Apples (green) 50 Onions 52 



Apples (dried) 28 Onion sets (bottom) 32 



Barley 48 Onion sets (top) 28 



Beans (navy) 60 Orchard grass seed 1 4 



Beans (lima) 56 Parsnips 42 



Beans (broad Windsor) 47 Peaches (not dried) 48 



Beans (scarlet runner pole) .... 50 Peaches (dried) 28 



Beans (white runner pole) 50 Peanuts 22 



Beets 50 Peas (smooth) 60 



Blue grass seed 14 Peas (wrinkled) 56 



Broom corn seed 57 Potatoes (Irish) 60 



Buckwheat 50 Potatoes (sweet) 55 



Carrots 45 Plastering (hair washed) 4 



Chestnuts 50 Plastering (hair unwashed) .... 8 



Clover seed 60 Rape seed 50 



Corn (ear) 70 Redtop seed 14 



Corn (shelled) 56 Rhubarb 50 



Corn (sweet) 48 Rutabagas 52 



Cranberries 36 Rye 56 



Cucumbers 48 Sorghum seed 57 



Flaxseed 56 Spelt or speltz 40 



Hempseed 50 Timothy seed 45 



Hickory nuts 50 Tomatoes 50 



Hungarian grass seed 48 Turnips 55 



Lime 89 Walnuts 50 



Millet 48 Wheat 60 



METRIC SYSTEM 



Many foreign countries have discarded all of the local 

 units of measurement and have accepted the meter as the 

 standard unit of length, the gram for weight, the liter for 

 liquids, and the are for land measurement. The meter is a 

 unit in the decimal system and obviates all common frac- 

 tions, any unit being either a subdivision or a multiple by 

 10 of the standard unit. The official meter is the distance 

 between two marks on a metal rod kept in Paris, France 



