Dry Commodity Standards.
Milwaukee Code of Ordinances § 82-3
in effect82-3. Dry Commodity Standards.
1. BY BUSHEL. Whenever any of the articles or commodities mentioned in this section shall be sold in the city by the bushel or fractional part thereof, and no special agreement as to weight thereof shall be made in writing, the measure thereof shall be ascertained by avoirdupois weight and shall be computed as follows:
a. 60 pounds for a bushel of wheat, peas, potatoes, clover seed, beans, alfalfa or alsike (clover).
b. 56 pounds for a bushel of Indian corn, rye, lima beans, wrinkled peas, flaxseed, rutabagas or tomatoes.
c. 54 pounds for a bushel of sweet potatoes.
d. 50 pounds for a bushel of corn meal, rapeseed, millet seed, beets, green cucumbers, rye meal, carrots, buckwheat, hickory nuts, onions or fine salt.
e. 48 pounds for a bushel of barley, peaches, pears or Hungarian grass seed.
f. 14 pounds for a bushel of blue grass seed or red top seed.
g. 46 pounds for a bushel of castor beans.
h. 45 pounds for a bushel of timothy seed or rough rice.
i. 44 pounds for a bushel of hemp seed, parsnips, apples or sea island cotton seed.
j. 42 pounds for a bushel of turnips.
k. 35 pounds for a bushel of cranberries.
L. 34 pounds for a bushel of barley malt.
m. 33 pounds for a bushel of dried peaches.
n. 32 pounds for a bushel of oats or onion sets.
o. 30 pounds for a bushel of upland cotton seed.
p. 25 pounds for a bushel of dried apples.
q. 20 pounds for a bushel of bran or shorts.
r. 70 pounds for a bushel of coarse salt or lime.
s. 80 pounds for a bushel of unslaked lime.
t. 8 pounds for a bushel of plastering hair. For a fractional part of a bushel, a like fractional part of the above weights shall be required.
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STANDARD DRY MEASURE. All dry commodities not otherwise specified in this section shall be bought or sold only by standard dry measures, standard weights or numerical count except where parties otherwise agree in writing. ( File #9722, Oct. 25, 1915.)
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