LEGAL WEIGHTS AND MEASURES OF VEGETABLES 
SOLD IN NEW YORK STATE 
Joun H. Farrett, Arsayy, N.Y, 
State Superintendent of Weights and Measures 
Vegetables, like all commodities sold in this state, must be sold 
either by weight, measure or numerical count. 
There are two simple ways in which vegetables may be sold 
in the state of New York: (1) by the head or bunch, and (2) 
by weight. 
The method of sale hy dry measure is far more complex, for, 
in the first place, when commodities are commonly sold by heap 
measure the law provides: 
* The measure of capacity for all commodities commonly 
sold by heap measure shall be the half bushel and its mul- 
tiples and subdivisions. ‘The measures used to measure such 
commodities shall be cylindrical, with plain and even bot- 
tom, and of the diameter of nineteen and one-half inches 
from outside to outside if a bushel; fifteen and one-half 
inches if a half bushel, and twelve and one-third inches if a 
peck. 
“All commodities sold by heap measure shall be duly 
heaped up in the form of a cone, the outside of the meas- 
ure to be the limit of the base of the cone, and the cone to 
be as high as the commodities will admit.” 
Furthermore, bushels of various vegetables must consist of a 
definite number of pounds, in the absence of any agreement to 
the contrary: peas, potatoes or beans, 60° pounds; onions, 57 
pounds, sweet potatoes, 54 pounds and carrots, 50 pounds. For 
a fractional part of a bushel, like fractional parts of the above 
weights are required. There are similar provisions as to varlous 
fruits and grains. 
When more than six heads or bunches of vegetables are sold 
by count, or whenever vegetables are sold hy weight or dry meas- 
ure, the weight, measure or count must he marked on a label 
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