Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 1, 1912, Page 12

‘THE FARMER'S TALK TO FARMER LEGAL WEIGHTS WHICH PRODUCE . CONFUSION (Written Specially For The Bulletin.) “Big Business’ pable of some mighty small busines One B4 , at times. of the petty tricks by which it jockeys | and over-reaches the farmer is in the utterly absurd and illogical way in which it juggles with weights and measures. 1 don’t mean by the cheating with false scales or false quarts to which some peddlers and a few in which, having ¢ law retailers resort. 1 mean the wajy arefully jumbled the beforehand, it proceeds to “mix up” to its advantage and to our We are supposed to sell some things, such as butter and beef simple | and pork, by | the pound or hundred-weight: we are | supposed to sell such produce as po- tatoes and corn and oats by the bushel. And, when we have to buy them, we are supposed to buy them the same way. But do we fers What is a pound? It is a standard of | weight; with careful same throughout fixed by both law and custom exactitude; exactly the the entire country. 1t has absolutely nothing whatever to | do with bulk, “A pound's a the world around,” whether it is a pound of fluffy feathers filling a bag, or a pound of lead shot that you can hold in one hand. What is a buskel? It is a standard of capacity, also fixed by law and cus- tom with painful exactitude. It is the same the country over; containing just 2150.42 cubic inches. A bushel of water weighs about eighty pounds: a bushel of thistle-down might weigh an ounce or two . The weight would make no difference; it is only the bulk which a bushel measures. Yet for vears, legislatures have been indus- triously engaged in ‘“mixing these babies up,” till at last we've reached a state of most complete higgledy-pig- gledy confusion, in the fog of which those who are best posted and most cunning can often take petty advan- tage of those who are either ignorant or more trustful. Nine states out of ten have actual laws undertaking to tell what a bush- el shall be in weight. When you come to think of it, you'll see at once that a state might as well undertake to say what a yard should weigh ,or how much a hundred-weight of pork should | measure. Not only is the attempt to legislate one thing,—bulk,—in terms of another thing,—weight,—illogical in it- self, the muddle has been still farther by thickened the determination of each legislature to have a separate de- rangement of its own. Of eourse, quite a few have happened to fall upon the eame figures, but quite a few haven’t. As a result one must have the laws of every state of the union in his head, if he going to know what he gets when Re buys or sells outside of his own commonwealth. For instance, in some states a “bushel” of shelled corn is gravely declared to be so muth corn as shall weigh pounds: in some other states, it is likew by law, declared to be pounds. Some legislatures ‘bushel” of pounds: others that oats shall be 32 pound ates a “bushel” of buc the legislature, stated to in at least or ds: in otl variously 42, or 48, or 50, or § A “bushel” of beans may be 60 pouns in one state and 62 in the state ad- joining. A “bushel” of timothy may be 42 pounds in one state, 45 in an- other, and 60 in still ancther. In sc states a “hushe lated into 356 %0 pounds. I 46 pounds in a while 50 pounds is rec I live between two sometimes ship by both quarters are in different potatoes in legi I ship apples by one, 48 pounds ‘nake a4 “bushel;” on the other it takes 30 pounds, There are states where the legislatures have decreed that 44| pounds of apples shall be a “bushel.” D you ever hear of worss sens: non- And do you cbserve what a chanze this whwlly needless complication and perplexity of legislation gives “honest graft” to get in its work? Suppose vou live in a. state which calls of buckwheat a ‘“bushel”. some. in a state which compels the farmer to gjve you 56 pounds as a “bushel” You are 16 pounds “to the zood” on every bushel vou handle. Worth gowgring for, eh? Suppose you 10 pounds You buy pound, | | oats | buy corn in a state which makes 56 pounds a “bushel” and sell it in a state whose legislature has gravely decided hat 52 pounds are a “bushel.” If you y and sell the small bushel, you will have saved four pounds of corn on each transaction, worth, at the rate, about six cents, This isn’t anything very heartbreaking, on a single bushel. But on & thousand bushels it means a gross graft of §60. And the big corn speculators deal in lots of many thousand bushels at a time. When you have your oats threshed vou pay the threshing crew so mu(-‘h per hundred bushels. With me it is §3 and three cents a bushel for all ex- cess over the even hundred. The oats will measure, as they come from the thresher, and you'll pay for the hun- dred, by measure, But when you come to sell those oats the dealer will weigh them, and if they happen to be under the locally legal weight, you may find that the hundred bushels you've paid for h ng threshed aren’t over ninety bushel perhaps even less. \On other hand we farmers such grain by measure. We give our horses four or eight or ten quarts at a ration. When we buy, the chances are that the deal- er will have got in a cargo of “clipped” or otherwise abmnormally heavy oats we'll pay him bushel price for about twenty quarts: and then we'll either have to figure out a comparative table of quarts and pounds and buy a set of scales to keep in the stable,—or else feed out our bushel in about twe- thirds the usual time, and have to buy more. Wherein is suggested one other idea of “how the money goes’—out of our pockets and into the bank account of “Big Business.” the practically all feed Now, don’t think that | am kicking against the system of buying and sell- ing by weight. I don’t care a straw whether I sell corn by the bushel or by the hundred: whether 1 sell potatoes by the bushel or by the hundred. common convenience shall decide that buying and selling by weight is the proper way, well and good; let’s all do it that way. Discard the antiquated “bushel” and “pec and “quart”: buy and sell everything by the peund or the hundred or the ton. What I object to is the confusion of standards, which in theory is absurd and in practice is unfair. What we all want—or ought to want,— is a fixed and immutable set of | standards for weight and bulk and 5 and distance,—each omne settled and accepted in its own field and with strict lines drawn between them. We want a yard that all be the same length, whether it is a yard of cotton cloth or a yard of taffeta, and the same length in every state, too; want an acre which shall be of the ame size whether i in Michigan or of g Connecticut: we want a bushel which shall be exactly the same size, wheth- er it's a bushel of oats in New York or a bushel of potatoes in Maine: we want a pound that shall always be a pound, no more and no less, BeacoE~ate Then we should all meet, at the tart-off, anyway, on even terms and with the oppertunity for getting a square deal. If we find it more con- venient, all around, to buy and sell oats solely by weight, there’s no reason why we shouldn’t, just as we buy sugar and coffee by weight. The point I want to make is that we ought to be able to have one standard only for both huyer and seller and for all parts of the country,—one standard in each separate form of mensuration, with- out any attempt to make them over- 1t d be no more absurd to res of distance and of how leng an acre should instance,—than to mix up me is no adequate nor even sensible rea- son for either one. In the midst of all the movements for ameliorating the condition of agri- culture, it would seem as if here was field f legal reform. All that is nece Ty the simple repeal of such as now attempt to say that any ure of capacity shall hold, by ght, and thus low the common convenience to settle for itself which products shall be sold by measure only, and which by weight only. If, for example, it was universally agreed that oats were to be bought and sold only by the hundred weight, then we’d all,—producer and dealer, break even and find an equal chance. We'd give up our four-quart and peck measures laws |fnl' feeding and weigh out rations for at Camp Comfort The boys at Camp Comfort are using the same stove that they had last year. It was the best they could get. It wasa New Perfection -stove This year they got a New Perfection Oven Also a New Perfection Toaster - Oil The New Perfection Stove is_bandsomely finiched in nickel, with cabinet tep, drop_shelves, towel racks, etc. Long chimneys, enam- eled turquaise-blua. Made with 1, 2 or 3 burners. All dealers, Free Cook - Book with every stove. Cook- k alo given to anyone sending 5 cents to cover mailing cost, Also a New Perfection Broiler “Gee, what » difference in the meals a good stove makes,” said one of the boys. So they calied their shack * Camp Comfott.” And they will tell their mothers and wives about the stove, too, For the New Perfection Oil Cook-stove is as convenient for the home as for the c:;:tr It will bake, broil, roast and tonst as well as a coal range, STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF NEW YORK NEW YORK OITY ALBANY, N. Y. BUFFALO, N. Y. BOSTON, If | we | sures of weight and of bulk. There | ninety cents for the big bushel i { | I ! NOT A DISEASE But a Symptom, a Danger Sig- nal Which Every Woman Should Heed. Backache is a symptom of organic’ weakness or derangement. If you have backache don’t neglect it. To get per- manent relief you must reach the root of the trouble. Read about Mrs. Wood- | all’s experience. Morton’s Gap, Kentucky. — I suffered two years with female disorders, my 3 — health was very bad | and I hada continual | backache which was | simply awful. Icould | not stand on'my feet | long enough to cook | a meal’s victuals | without my back nearly killing me, | i i such dragging sensa. tions I could hkardly bear it. I had sore- ness in each side, could not stand tight clothing, and was irreguler. I was com- pletely run down. On advice I took Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- pound and am enjoying goed health. It | is now more than two years and.I have not had an ache or pain since. it to all my neighbors. If you think my testimony will help others you may pub- lish it.”’—Mrs. OLLIE WOODALL, Movr- ton’s Gap, Kentucky. that Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegeta- ble Compound will help you, write to Lydia E.Pinkham Medicine Co. (confidential) Lynn, Mass., for ad~ and held in strict confidence. our stock by the pound. And the fel- lows who now get a living by making measures could remodel factories:and go to manufacturing scales! We could all very soon get used ‘$o either way of reckening. It is the at- tempt to mix together two unmixable) things which affords opportunity lation. for petty pecu- THE FARMER. Who Dragged Him In? Mr. Roosevelt asks a generous pub- lic to believe that he was “dragged in- to the campaign.” Who dragged him? Certainly not the seven little governors —for all they did was to ask the third termer to become a candidate in viola- | tion of his reiterated statement that | he would not do so. say to them was that he would keep his pledge. More important, however, is the question as to the vast sums of money being used to promote the evelt candidacy. Imn New York alone $71,000 was spent by the two Roosevelt organizations. Of this amount, $45,000 was given by Perking, Munsey and Cochran, and smaller sums gentlemen deeply interested in the wool schedule. In Allegheny county—the Pittsburgh county—$31,000 was spent, of which Boss Flinn gave $22,000. The advertising bill in Mas- sachusetts was $75,000. Money is be- ing contributed in large amounts in the far western states, and alse for use among the delegates already elect- ed from the south. Money was lavishly used in Maryland, Money is now be- ing poured into Ohio by the barrel And all this is for the purpose of win- | ning the nomination for a man n whose behalf the people were to “rise as one man.”"—Iddianapolis News. Japan Feels The Cost Of Living. The cost of government in Japan has increased enormously as a result of taxation made necessary to meet war expenditure and an aggressive forward policy in extending the commerce of in providing better edu- cational facilities and in colonial ad- venturing. The result of extravagant governmental outlay is shown in the | heavy advance in the cost of living, in- | veolving as it does a consequent reduc- | tion jof wages. The workers can no | longer subsist on the wages they get. Japan is a poer country, and the suf- fering is greater there than in other | countries richer in natural resources | and in productive capacity; but the | problem of bringing income and outgo | into some more nearly equivalent re- | lation seems to be world wide . It is the uppermost matter engaging the at- tention of the people of the United States in this year of our Lord. Japan has no menopely of breakfast-table distress.— Philadelphia Record. California To Massachusetts, In California ,according to the count reported in the press dispatches, there were cast for republican candidates | 147,000 votes and for demoecratic candi- | dates 33,000 votes; about five republi- | can votes to one democratic vote . In Massachusetts, with a democratic gov- ernor, the republican votes were about three and a bhalf times the democratic votes. Nobody for a moment believes that five republicans went to the pr ial primary in California to mocrat knows 154nds Dakota—voted for « can candidate T repu ota they for La Folletie; i rnia they veoted for La Follet- te and Roosevelt; in Maryland they voted for Roosevelt ,who openly bid for their votes. It cannot be too often pointed out that the wide-open primary is a rot- ten fraud.—The Kansas City Journal. « A Motor's Funeral. ial of the big motor car No. 14, was in the Grand Island | roundhouse when it burned down, took | place the other morning, says Ewing | Herbert. Some of the irons and ma- | chinery had been removed from the charred hull by a corps of hands em- ploved upon it many days, but the shell was worthless. To get it out of the way at least cost and trouble, it was put in a grave 80 feet long, 8§ feet wide and 12 feet deep. It was or that run Kansas | and from put them hey cannot si heads, Arm n me their srow withot up h- | ing his neck ’ill some ome kindly i a iis treatment to T. R.?—Al-| yany Argus. Roosevelt in Rhyme. A smac Lord Cromer; Jeff Da -a touch of him. A listie of Lincoln—not very much of him. Kitchenr, Bismark, and Germany Wil Jupiter, Chamberlain, Buffalo Bill, Help! Police! The Democrats of the Nutmeg State have declared for Governor Baldwin, but they will have to furnish a greater before taey can w'n at Bal- timore.—~Washington Lost, BREED THEATR Monday and Tuesiay oy} = THE CR 2 Reels of the Most Interesting Picture the Bison Com- pany has yet releatied and I would have ! Idoall| my own work, washing and everything, | and never have backache any more. 1! think your medicine is grand and I praise | If you have the slightest doubtf! vice. Your letter will be opened, | | read and answered by a woman, | leads to confusion and |, IN THREE PARTS - ANNOUNGEMENT . 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