fined not less than $jo nor more than $50, or imprisone 

 less than 10 or more than 30 days. 



Sec. 3. That this act shall he in force from and aft 

 first day of September, 1891. 



Weights and measures. A committee of the American 

 Trade Association, appointed for the purpose of consic 

 the cental system of quotations (per 100 lbs.) of vi 



1, 1893, and to be used in preparing catalogues fo 



' The advantages to be gained are manifold. The legis- 



:ing number of pounds which shall constitute a bushel, 

 I these vary so greatly that much controversy is caused in 

 jrstate commerce, which cannot occur under the cental 



zing, shipping and billing out goods, and do away with a 

 *e portion of the vexatious and costly errors which often 

 ur under the old plan. 



'We suggest and recommend that clover, blue grass, 

 top, orchard grass, etc., be quoted by the pound, 



:ed seeds be quoted by the 100 pounds. 



'At this time we do not recommend that the change in- 



de peas, beans, corn, flax, wheat, oats, rye and 



Greenhouse heating by electricity* Gustave Oliv 

 Geneva, Switzerland, have recently invented a 

 heating greenhouses by electricity. The system 

 the ideal in the workings, but so much power is re 

 it can scarcely be regarded as economical. The < 



