Excerpt from To Establish Standard Weights and Measures for Flour, Meal, and Feed: Hearings Before the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, House of Representatives, Sixty-Fifth Congress, Second Session on H. R. 10957, April 16, 1918 Mr. Holbrook. The fractional parts remain. Of course, but they become even units. The half barrel becomes 100 weight, the quarter barrel becomes 50 pounds, the eighth barrel becomes 25 pounds, and then from that point on we have the 10, 5, 4, '2. And l. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.