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being accepted by the Department of Agriculture. They comprise 

 a stock set of measures of the following capacities : 1 pint, and 1, 2, 

 4, 8, and 16 quarts. To these have been added, as the needs of the 

 work demanded, first, a full-bushel measure, and then 12, 20, and 

 24 quart measures. The last three were made necessary by the 

 United States standard container act of 1928, which includes these 

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The glass graduate used has a capacity of 35 cubic inches. It is 

 graduated by one-half cubic inches, and every 5 cubic inches is marked, 

 as are the dry one-half pint and dry pint. A graduate having a 

 capacity of 1 dry pint would be large enough. In purchasing glass 

 graduates consideration should be given to the height that can be 

 used under the hopper funnel. (Fig. 7.) Some of those on the mar- 

 ket are too high to use with the hopper owned by the department. 

 The glass graduate is used in making the final determination of the 

 quantity of excess or deficiency of any basket and is also used for 

 testing i/2 -pint berry boxes. 



