Excerpt from Weights and Measures for Flour-Mill and Corn-Mill Products, Etc, Vol. 3: Hearings Before the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, House of Representatives, Sixty-Seventh Congress, First Session, on H. R. 4901; Friday, June 3, 1921 I judge, from what has been said in the prior hearings, that you are not trying to establish a metric system of weights, but you are seeking, so far as may lie within your power, to eliminate fraud and deception. 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.