Standard and Legal Measures and Sizes. 121 



Society and Customary Standards, continued. 



Miscellaneous.— Prunes are graded by running' them over 

 screens of various degrees of coarseness. The meshes should be 

 oblong, 2 ins. or more in length for all the sizes, the widths vary- 

 ing as stated in the table below. The California French prunes 

 are usually sorted in six sizes, by using the following methods : 



Width of mesh for Width of mesh for 

 Grade. green prunes. dried prunes. 



Extras, 40 to 50 to pound 1% inch \% inch. 



No. 1,50 to 60 " m " \% " 



No/ 2, 60 to 70 m " 1 



No. 3, 70 to SO " 1 " % " 



No. 4, 80 to 90 " % % u 



No. 5, 90 to 100 u % " % 11 



Watermelons are usually sorted into three grades. Of the 

 largest size, about 6 melons are placed in a barrel. Of medium 

 size, about 8 (4 melons in each of two layers), and of the smallest 

 size, 10 to 12. A truck-load of melons comprises about 200 fair- 

 sized fruits. A car-load numbers from 1,000 to 1,500. 



Cocoanuts are packed for shipment in bags which hold 100. 



" Ekimis " branded upon boxes of Smyrna figs means A No. 1, 

 or Superior Selected. ' ' Eleme ' 1 means Selected, the second grade. 



6. Covent Garden (London) Measures. 



Sea-kale Punnets. — 8 ins. diameter at the top, 7% ins. at the 

 bottom, and 2 ins. deep. 



Radish Punnets. — 8 ins. diameter and 1 inch deep, if to hold 

 6 hands ; or 9 ins. by 1 in. for 12 hands. 



Mushroom. — 7 ins. by 1 in. 



Salad Punnets. — 5 ins. by 1 in. 



Sieve. — Contains 7 imperial gals. Diameter, 15 ins. ; depth, 8 

 ins. A sieve of peas is equal to 1 bu. A sieve of currants, 12 qts. 



Hale-Sieve. — Contains 3}^ imperial gals. It averages 12% ins. 

 in diameter and 6 ins. in depth. 



Bushel Sieve. — 10% imperial gals. Diameter at top, 11%" ins. ; 

 at bottom, 17 ins. ; depth, W% ins. 



Bushel Basket ought, when heaped, to contain an imperial 

 bushel. Diameter at bottom 10 ins,, at top 14% ins. ; depth, 17 ins. 



