Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 191, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1919 — M’GUFF OFFERS H. C. L. REMEDY [ARTICLE]

M’GUFF OFFERS H. C. L. REMEDY

CITY SEALER THINKS WEIGHT % SYSTEM WOULD HELP DEFEAT PROFITEERS, rgj Edward McGuff, city sealer of weights’ and measures of Indianap- | olis, believes that the elimination of the term “bushel” in buying and selling commodities and the substitution of a 100-pound .basis of trade would be a decided factor in the war against profiteering. Mr. Mic Guff cites the fact that produce is sold an various places in baskets that resemble a bushel, but in reality only contain from forty to fifty pounds. The innocent purchaser, however, (buys the basket believing that a bargain was obtained* J “Just so long as dry commodities, such as beans, potatoes, tomatoes, apples, peaches, pears, etc., are quoted and offered for sale at so much a bushel instead of by the pound the housewife and other consumers will always be in trouble,” said Mr. McGuff. Weights by the Bushel. Mr. McGuff declared that few persons are familiar with what a (bushel of any particular commodity should weigh. He gave the follow- f ing list of commodities with their weight by the bushel: Wheat, 60 lbs.; oats, 32 lbs.; buckwheat, 50 lbs.; popcorn, 56 lbs.; commeal, 50 lbs.; com in ear to Dec. 1, 70 lbs.; corn in ear after Dec. 1, 68 lbs.; rye, 56 lbs.; barley, 48 lbs.; malt rye, 35 lbs.; flax seed, 56 lbs.; Kaffir rice, 45 lbs.; rough rice, 45 lbs.; beans, 60 lbs.; cow peas, 60 lbs.; soy soja beans, 60 lbs.; clover seed, 60 lbs.; hemp seed, £4 lbs.; sorghum seed, -50 lbs.; cranberries, 33 lbs.; gooseberries, 40 jj lbs.; hickory nuts, 50 lbs.; walnuts, 50 lbs.; coarse salt, 50 lbs.; fine salt, 55 lbs.; bluegrass seed, 14 Hxs.; orchard grass seed, 14 lbs.; timothy seed, 45 lbs.; millet, 50 lbs.; herd grass seed, 45 lbs.; rape seed, 50 dibs.; red top grass seed, 60 lbs.; al- " salsa seed, %0 lbs.; peaches, 48 Bbs.; S dried peaches, 33 lbs.; apples, 48 ;; lbs.; dried apples, 25 lbs.; quinces, 48 lbs.; pears, 50 lbs.; onions, 57 lbs.; beets, 60 lbs.; carrots, 50 lbs.; parsnips, 55 lbs.; turnips, 55 lbs.; tomatoes, 60 lbs.; cucumbers, 48 H>s.; ... potatoes, 60 lbs.; sweet potatoes, 50 lbs.; middlings (coarse), 30 lbs.; bran, 20 lbs.; coal (mineral) 80 lbs.; charcoal, 20 lbs, and coke, 40 lbs.