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[stricken] Abner Mitchell - 6 bu wheat for Hurley 6 bu

    for seed                                                           3-1/2 "

let. Mr. Pierce

  1 crock butter - 24 lb    $3.75
  1  crock   "         25  "     $2.97
 Mr. Buchanning - have  23-3/4

[stricken] H.E. Burhan - to hay 160 lb at 25-/2 h. Ref. D. ____ [snipped out of a publication:] WEIGHTS AND MEASURES- The following table of the number of pounds of various articles to a bushel, may be of interest to our readers : Of wheat, 60 pounds. Of shelled corn, 56 pounds. Of corn on the cob, 70 pounds. Of rye, 56 pounds. Of oats, 36 pounds. Of barley, 46 pounds. Of potatoes, 60 pounds. Of beans, 60 pounds. Of bran, 20 pounds. Of clover seed, 60 pounds. Of timothy seed, 45 pounds. Of flax seed, 45 pounds. Of hemp seed, 44 pounds. Of buckwheat, 52 pounds. Of blue grass seed, 14 pounds. Of castor beans, 46 pounds. Of dried peaches, 33 pounds. Of dried apples, 24 pounds. Of onions, 57 pounds. Of salt, 50 pounds.