

THE WEIGHING OF MARKET HAY. Huy 
from the car. This order usually contains the car initial and num- 
ber, together with the name of the buyer, and is signed by the seller. 
At St. Louis, where the Merchants’ Exchange maintains a super- 
visor at each team track seale where hay is weighed, this order is 
presented to the supervisor instead of the weighmaster. The super- 
visor, after making a record of it, issues another order, which con- 
tains the wagon number, the car number and initial, and the name of 
the buyer. This order is then presented to the weighmaster, who, 
after obtaining the tare weight, places that amount upon it and gives 
it to the driver. At most other markets the weigher, upon receipt of 
seller’s order, weighs the empty wagon or truck and places the 
amount of the tare weight, together with the car initial and number 
from which the hay is to be taken, upon a weight ticket, which is then 
given to the driver. 
Upon receiving the tare weight the driver proceeds to the car con- 
taining the hay which he is to haul, as shown upon the weight ticket, 
and proceeds to obtain a load of the hay. In several of the large 
markets an inspector is stationed at the wagon track yards whose 
duty it is to police them and to see that drivers obtain their loads 
from the proper cars. They indicate by a check mark or their initials 
on the weight ticket that this has been done. At some markets these 
inspectors are in the employ of the railroads and at others they are 
employed by the commercial exchanges. When the load has been 
obtained it is weighed on the same scales on which the tare weight 
was found, and this gross weight is then also placed upon the ticket 
taken by the driver with the load. 
In all cases a copy of the weights is kept by the official weigher and 
is forwarded by him when the weighing of the car is completed, or at 
the close of the day, to the office of the chief weighmaster, who issues 
an official certificate for the total amount of the weights of each car. 
Where supervisors are also employed the weighmasters usually 
turn over the weights to them, and they, in turn, after recording 
the amounts, forward them to the chief weighmaster. 
WEIGHING FROM PRIVATE TEAM TRACKS. 
Firms operating private warehouses or having private sidings 
and desiring to have official weight certificates issued for hay weighed 
by them usually have one of their employees designated as an official 
weigher. When such an employee is so designated he becomes sub- 
_ ject to the rules and regulations of the weighing department of the 
commercial exchanges. In markets where bonds are required of the 
_ weigher he, or his employer, must furnish a bond of a specified 
amount for the proper performance of his duties. Some weighing 
departments have official weighers who can be furnished to the 
Various private warehouses on request and can be sent from place 
to place as the need for them occurs. 
