English market-gardeners, and retailers of fruit, potatoes, etc, generally vend their commodities as if the Act of Parliament, 5 and 6 Will. IV. c. 63, did not exist. By this statute selling by heaped measure is forbidden under a penalty of not more than 40s. for every such sale. Section S provides that, as some articles heretofore sold by heaped measure are incapable of being stricken, and may not inconveniently be sold by weight, it is enacted, that all such arti-ticles may henceforth be sold by a bushel-measure, corresponding in shape with the bushel prescribed by the 5 Geo. IV. c. 74, for the sale of heaped measure, or by any multiple or aliquot part thereof, filled in all parts as nearly to the level of the brim as the size and shape of the articles will admit; but nothing herein shall prevent the sale by weight of any article heretofore sold by heaped measure. The 5 Geo. IV. c. 74, thus referred to, enacts, by section 24

7, that for potatoes, fruit, etc, the bushel shall be made round, with a plain and even bottom, and being nineteen inches and a half from outside to outside, and capable of containing 80lbs. weight of water.

Of Wood Fuel. English Measure

Wood-fuel is assized into shids, billets, faggots, fall-wood, and cord-wood. A shid is of fall-wood and cord-wood.

A shid is to be four feet long, and, according as they are marked and notched, their proportion must be in the girth: viz., if they have but one notch they must be sixteen inches in the girth; if two notches, twenty-three inches; if three notches, twenty-eight inches; if four notches, thirty-three inches; and if five notches, thirty-eight inches about.

Billets are to be three feet long, of which there should be three sorts; namely, a single cask, and a cask of two. The first is seven inches; the second ten inches; and the third fourteen inches about. They are sold by the hundred of five score.

Faggots are to be three feet long, and, at the band, of twenty-four inches about, besides the knot; of such faggots fifty go to the load.

Bavins and Spray-wood are sold by the hundred, which are accounted a load. Cord-wood is the bigger sort of fire-wood ; and it is measured by a cord or line, whereof there are two measures - that of fourteen feet in length, three feet in breadth, and three feet in height; the other is eight feet in length, four feet in height, and four feet in breadth.