904 WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. [ART. 97
1914, ch. 802.
23. Any person, firm or corporation in this State who manufac-
tures, sells, offers for sale, or has in his, her, or its possession barrels,
baskets, or boxes of the capacities defined in Sections 18, 21 and 22
of this Article, and if of less capacities than are defined in said Sections
18, 21 and 22, must plainly mark in three conspicuous places on the
exterior sides of said barrels, baskets, or boxes, in letters not less than
one and one-half inches high the word "Short." Any person, firm, or
corporation, or agent, employe, or officer of any person, firm, or corpora-
tion, violating any of the provisions of this Section shall, be fined not
less than one dollar, nor more than five dollars for each' offense; and
the use, sale, or manufacture of each barrel, basket, box, half-box, or
half-basket, not marked as designated herein shall constitute a separate
offense.
1914, ch. 802.
24. The standard weights for grain, hay, straw, produce, and min-
eral coal for this State shall be as.follows: Apples (dried) 28 pounds,
(green) 50 pounds, per bushel; alsike clover seed, 60 pounds per
bushel; alfalfa seed, 60 pounds per bushel; barley, 48 pounds per
bushel; barley malt, 34 pounds per bushel; buckwheat, 48 pounds per
bushel; blue grass seed, 14 pounds per bushel; dried beans, 60 pounds
per bushel; bran, 20 pounds- per biishel; carrots, 50 pounds per bushel;
corn, (shelled), 56 pounds per bushel; corn (on cob), 70 pounds per
bushel; corn (on cob), 350 pounds per barrel; corn (shelled), 280
pounds per barrel; corn meal, 48 pounds per bushel; clover seed, 60
pounds per bushel; castor beans or seed, 50 pounds per bushel; coal or
culm, 80 pounds per bushel; coal, 2240 pounds one ton; charcoal, (com-
mercially dry), 2748 cubic inches per bushel; cow-peas, 60 pounds per
bushel; flour, 196 pounds per barrel; flax seed, 56 pounds per bushel;
herd's grass seed, 45 pounds per bushel; Hungarian grass seed, 50
pounds per bushel; hemp seed, 44 pounds per bushel; hay, 2000
pounds one ton; lime, 80 pounds per bushel; millet (German and
American), 50 pounds per bushel; oats, 32 pounds per bushel; onions,
54 pounds per bushel; orchard grass seed, 14 pounds per bushel;
peaches (peeled), 40 pounds per bushel; peaches (unpeeled), 32 pounds
per bushel; dried peas, 60 pounds per bushel; potatoes (sweet and
Irish), 60 pounds per bushel; peanuts, 22 pounds per bushel; rye, 56
pounds per bushel; red top grass seed (chaff), 14 pounds per bushel;
rep top grass seed (fancy), 32 pounds per bushel; rape, 50 pounds per
bushel; straw, 2000 pounds one ton; salt (coarse), 70 pounds per
bushel; salt (fine), 56 pounds per bushel; sorghum, 50 pounds per
bushel; timothy grass 'seed, 45 pounds per bushel; turnips, 60 pounds
per bushel; wheat, 60 pounds per bushel.
1914, ch. 802.
25. All charges for freight, measurement, weighing, inspection,
wharfage and commission on grain shall be made on the number of
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