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The meaſures are equally variable, At Lancaſter a load of wheat, beans, and peaſe, is four and a half buſhels(Wincheſ- ſer); barley, ſix Wincheſter buſhels; oats, leven and a half Wincheſter buſhels*,
N. B.—W heat has been ſold lately by the weight of 280 Ib.
At Ulverſtone, a load of wheat is 45 Wincheſter buſhels; oats, lix Wincheſter buſhels.
At Mancheſter, a load of wheat is ſixteen ſcore; a load of oats nine Wincheſter buſhels; a load of beans five Wincheſ- ter buſhels; a load of potatoes twelve ſcore and twelve pounds, waſhed; unwaſhed, thirteen ſcore.
At Liverpool, the town?s buſhel is 34> quarts for oats, bar- ley, and beans, making exaQly 36 quarts Wincheſter, or one- eighth more than a Wincheſter buſhel; and by the cuſtom of trade, one given in at every ſcore, or twenty-one buſhels; of late wheat, barley, and oats have been ſold by weight, but never yet beans: wheat 70 Ib. to the bufhzl, barley vo lb. and oats 451b.; and probably this mode by weight is the faireſt for both ” buyer and ſeller; for, beſides the difüculty of getting a true ſtandard buſhel or meaſure, the dexterity of corn-meters is ſuch, that it is aſſerted+ they can gain either to the buyer Or ſeller from 10 tof 20 per cent. in* different modes of meaſurement; that 5 per cent. can be“obtained by thi pradtice by even bunglers in the buſineß: this is an eN profit, and the unfairneſs of ſuch practices merits the ſevereſt reprenhenfion{. 0
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* A load, ſo denominated, it ſhould ſeem, from the horſe load. j the weight a horſe could conven!ently carry on his back. Evy grain,&c. was conveyed this way till very lately, The load is in the mountainous parts.
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{ By a conſiderable corn-merchant. E Tt is enatted by 3xGeo. TIT. thas 2 Winchefer buſhel of cc Mould weigh as follows:
Ib. Ib. Wheat 57 avoirdupoiſe,— Wheat meal SIRI A É Barley 49 E ta es di: Flour 48 L LON ASES W N L 28- 42==-- ditto 41 LEE RE 20: Oats vt 38 dü A À_ R LS V 1INCNeiter DUuilei, Rye- E N Z EES Ss unSground,
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