This section is from the book "Hill's Manual Of Social And Business Forms: A Guide To Correct Writing", by Thos. E. Hill. Also available from Amazon: Hill's Manual Of Social And Business Forms: The How-To-Do-Everything Book Of Victorian America.
When not able to ascertain the weight definitely, railway companies make the following standard of weights in bulk.
Pounds. | |
Salt..................................... Per bushel | 70 |
Eggs........................................Barrel | 200 |
Bark........................................ Cord | 2,000 |
Barley...................................... Bushel | 45 |
Apples..................................... Bushel | 50 |
Liquors...................................Per gallon | 10 |
Charcoal.....................................Bushel | 22 |
Buclwheat................................... Bushel | 48 |
Wood-oak..................................... Cord | 3,500 |
Clover seed.................................. Bushel | 62 |
Hides (green)...................................Each | 85 |
Ice, coal, lime.................................Bushel | 80 |
Ston, dressed...............................Cubic feet | 180 |
Plastering lath............................. .Per 1,000 | 600 |
Wood - hickory.................................Cord | 4,500 |
Bricks, common................................Each | 5 |
Nails and spikes.................................keg | 106 |
Sand, gravel, etc.........................per cubic feet | 150 |
Ston, underssed................................Perch | 4,000 |
Articles. | Pounds. |
Beef, pork, bacon................................Per hhd | 1,000 |
Salt fish and meat...............................Per firkin | 100 |
Ashes, pot or pearl.................................Barrel | 450 |
Butter, tallow, lard................................Per bbl | 333 |
Coke, and cake meal...............................Bushel | 40 |
Resin, tar, turpentine...............................Barrel | 300 |
Onions, wheat, potatoes............................Bushel | 60 |
Bran, feed shipstuffs, oats...........................Bushel | 35 |
Liquors, malt and distilled...........................Barrel | 350 |
Apples, and barrelled fruits.........................Bushel | 200 |
Grain and seeds, not stated........................ Bushel | 60 |
Timothy and light grass seed........................Bushel | 40 |
Hides (dry), salted or Spanish.........................Each | 33 |
Shingles......................Per M., short, 900 lbs., Long | 1,400 |
Lumber -pine, poplar, hemlock. .Ft. b. m | 4 |
Lumber - oak, walnut, cherry, ash, Ft. b. m | 5 |
Oysters........................Per bushel, 100 lbs., per 1,000 | 350 |
Flour and meal.................. .Per bushel, 56 lbs., Barrel | 216 |
 
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