It might be well to save time if I might put into the record, if you please, a brief summary of the laws covering the weights of flour in the various States, and I will so submit. Now, there are quite a number of States that have passed legislation of that character. Hillard's mill, but he could not ship those packages into Virginia, because Virginia says that a quarter barrel of flour when sold as quarter barrels must be 48 pounds, and an eighth 24 pounds, and one-sixteenth 12 pounds, while again the barrel is 196 pounds. Virginia would be a natural market for Mr. In Pennsylvania the 12¼ and the 24½ and the 49 are the legal one-sixteenth, one-eighth and quarter packages. And the situation is such that-take a near-by illustration.

If he buys four quarters, in the States in which the statutes have been passed, he gets 192 pounds. Now, the effect is that a man who goes to buy a barrel of flour buys 196 pounds. Beginning with the 49-pound sack, which is the true quarter of a barrel of 196 pounds, a number of States have legislated that in selling flour in quarter-barrel sacks they shall be 48 pounds, and that instead of 24½ pounds, which is the eighth, which is the true division, that they shall have 24 pounds, and instead of 12¼ pounds a true one-sixteenth, that that shall be 12 pounds. but I want to call your attention particularly to those fractions of a barrel around which has grown, we will say, abuses. There are smaller sizes, as 10 pounds, 7 pounds, 5 pounds, 3 pounds, etc.

That was originally an old English 196 pounds of flour, and we accepted that, and it has gone into commerce and has found a very important place.Ī number of States-I should say first, that the packages commonly used in the family trade are, first, the 98 pounds, or half barrel 49 pounds, or quarter barrel 24½ pounds, or one-eighth barrel 12¼ pounds, or one-sixteenth barrel, the larger sizes of half-barrel and quarter-barrel being more popular in the country and suburban districts, while the smaller sizes are more popular in the cities. It comes down to us as 14 English stone of 14 pounds each. A number of States-in fact, practically all of the States-have by statute made 196 pounds the legal barrel of flour. The accustomed barrel of flour of 196 pounds is by tradition only that is, there has never been Federal action on it. Husband, Secretary, Millers' National Federation, Chicago, Ill. For the barrel's dimensions, see source note 2 below. The barrel was large enough to accomodate 196 pounds of the least dense flour. The size of the actual wooden barrel was more or less standardised, but the density of flour varies, depending, for example, on the type of wheat that was milled. ☙ Share this page on Facebook flour barrel and sackĪ unit of mass for flour, in the United States, 196 pounds (from 14 14-pound stones, a traditional English size) in Great Britain, the 20ᵗʰ century flour sack contained 140 pounds (10 14-pound stones).

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