Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1901 — Necessity for a General Standard. [ARTICLE]

Necessity for a General Standard.

In the creation of a bureau of standards this country has taken a forward step. Up to the present we have had to verify our instruments in Germany, but now that we have a bureau of our own, we will be able to rely on ourselves. What would still further help things would be the national adoption of a reasonable system of weights and measures, such as the metric system Until that is done we shall have great difficulty and confusion in the standardization of measures. Take, for instance, the bushel measure that is used for wheat. It differs in various states between points twenty pounds apart. There is a variation in other measures and until one standard is arranged for we shall always have trouble. —Philadelphia Inquirer.