OFFICIAL WEIGHTS PER BARREL AND BUSHEL
Compiled Statutes of Nebraska for 1929
Section 89-112 |
89-112. WEIGHTS PER BARREL AND PER BUSHEL: Whenever any of the articles or commodities mentioned in this section shall be sold by the bushel or fractional part thereof, and no special agreement shall be made in writing, the measure thereof shall be ascertained by avoirdupois weight, and shall be computed as follows: |
Apples |
48 lbs. |
Apples, dried |
24 lbs. |
Alfalfa seed |
60 lbs. |
Barley |
48 lbs. |
Beans, green unshelled |
56 lbs. |
Beans, dried |
56 lbs. |
Beans, Lima |
56 lbs. |
Beets |
56 lbs. |
Blue Grass Seed |
18 lbs. |
Bran |
20 lbs. |
Bromus Inermis |
14 lbs. |
Broom Corn Seed |
50 lbs. |
Buckwheat |
50 lbs. |
Carrots |
50 lbs. |
Castor Beans, shelled |
50 lbs. |
Charcoal |
20 lbs. |
Cherries |
40 lbs. |
Clover Seed |
60 lbs. |
Coal |
80 lbs. |
Coke |
40 lbs. |
Corn in ear, husked (field) |
70 lbs. |
Corn in ear, unhusked (field) |
75 lbs. |
Corn shelled (field) |
56 lbs. |
Cornmeal |
48 lbs. |
Cucumbers |
48 lbs. |
Emmer |
48 lbs. |
All root crops not specified above |
50 lbs. |
Grapes, with stems |
40 lbs. |
Hemp Seed |
44 lbs. |
Hickory Nuts, hulled |
50 lbs. |
Kaffir Corn |
56 lbs. |
Lime |
80 lbs. |
Millet Seed |
50 lbs. |
Oats |
32 lbs. |
Onions |
57 lbs. |
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Onion top sets |
28 lbs. |
Onion bottom sets |
32 lbs. |
Orchard grass seed |
14 lbs. |
Osage Orange seed |
32 lbs. |
Parsnips |
50 lbs. |
Peaches |
48 lbs. |
Peaches, dried |
33 lbs. |
Peanuts |
22 lbs. |
Pears |
45 lbs. |
Peas, green, unshelled |
50 lbs. |
Peas, dried |
60 lbs. |
Plums |
48 lbs. |
Popcorn on the ear |
70 lbs. |
Popcorn, shelled |
56 lbs. |
Potatoes |
60 lbs. |
Quinces |
48 lbs. |
Rape Seed |
50 lbs. |
Red Top Seed |
14 lbs. |
Rutabaga |
60 lbs. |
Rye |
56 lbs. |
Rye Grass Seed |
22 lbs. |
Salt |
80 lbs. |
Sand |
130 lbs. |
Shorts |
20 lbs. |
Sorghum Saccharatum seed |
50 lbs. |
Spelt (emmer) |
48 lbs. |
Sweet Corn |
50 lbs. |
Sweet Potatoes |
50 lbs. |
Timothy Seed |
45 lbs. |
Tomatoes |
56 lbs. |
Turnips |
55 lbs. |
Walnuts, hulled |
50 lbs. |
Wheat |
60 lbs. |
All root crops not specified above |
50 lbs. | |
The net weight per barrel or per hundred or divisible merchantable quantities shall be as follows and no packages other than these sizes shall be permitted for sale in the State of Nebraska: Wheat flour per barrel, 196 pounds; per half barrel, 98 pounds; per quarter barrel sack, 48 pounds; per one-eighth barrel sack, 24 pounds; and in smaller containers of 10 pounds, 5 pounds; rye flour, rye graham, wheat graham, whole wheat flour and cornmeal in packages of the following weights: One hundred pounds, fifty pounds, twenty-five pounds, ten pounds, and five pounds. Nothing in this article shall be construed to prohibit the sale in other sized packages, of flour prepared for special purposes. Approved March 22, 1929.
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