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Sccle of Corn by WeujJd. 
and the remainder of the corn is more often than not delivered by wei<?ht. 
Some officers regard that as a sale by weight, other officers regard it as a 
sale by measure, and in the preparation of the returns there is that difficulty 
to deal with, for which reason we have introduced the term "measured 
weight," which means that the corn is sold by the " bushel " or " quarter " of 
a fixed weight. (Q. 44.) 
No. of counties and towns in wliich 
Wheat 
Barley 
Oats 
1. 
England 
Wales 
Scotland 
. Ireland 
68 
1 
13 
96 
66 
1 
14 
93 
65 
1 
14 
96 
2. 
Sale by measure only . . . . ■ 
England 
Wales 
Scotland 
, Ireland 
'20 
8 
4 
32 
8 
7 
29 
8 
4 
3. 
"Sale by weight or measure com- 
bined, or by measured weight. 
England 
Wales 
Scotland 
l Ireland 
66 
16 
2.5 
1 
65 
16 
24 
68 
16 
25 
The evidence given by Mr. Chaney before the Committee is, 
from the nature of things, a little difficult to present in a 
connected form ; but I do not know that the question could be 
summed up more succinctly than in the following colloquy 
between him and Mr. Mark J. Stewart, M.P., who took up the 
examination of the witness after his answer to Mr. Seale Hayne's 
question No. 124, recorded in a previous paragraph. 
Q. 125. I suppose j^ou are aware that at least in Scotland the larger pro- 
portion of the corn is sold practically by weight ; you sell so many bushels, 
we will say, and the weight is guaranteed ? 
A. Yes. 
Q. l'2G. Of cour.^e if you did away with the bushel it would rather compli- 
cate matters, would it not ? If I say that I have 100 bushels to sell it is a 
simple mode of expressing it, always with an underlying supposition that 
that 100 bushels is sold by weight ? 
A. I think it would simplify mattei's to separate the actual mechanical 
weighing and measuring of the commodity from any consideration as to its 
quality. That has been the mistake in past legislation, I think; I think an 
order," for instance, should go for so manj' hundredweights or tons. The 
question as to the quality is one that the purchaser and the seller would 
see to. 
(i. 127. The quality is gonei-ally determined by the weiglit, is it not ? 
A. As in the case of other matters, bread, coal, gold, and so on, it is 
determined by certain magnitudes settled between the buyer and the 
seller. 
Q. ] 28. How do you distinguish between measured weight and measure 
and weight ? 
A. Where the bushel of grain is required to have a given fixed weight, 
that is, according to this return, a sale by measured weight ; but whera the 
order has been given by weight, the corn to be afterwards measured, as it 
