CHAP. 79.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1913 of the Code of
Virginia, relative to the standard of cord measure and of agricultural

products.
Approved March 4, 1912.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section nineteen hundred and thirteen of the Code of Virginia,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows: A cord con-
tains one hundred and twenty-eight cubic feet, being eight feet
long, four feet high and four feet wide, or the equivafent thereof ;
and in all measurements of wood, tan-bark or other things sub-
ject #0 such measurements the foregoing shall be the true and
legal standard, any usage, by-law or ordinance of any corpor-
ation, railroad or other company to the contrary, notwithstand-
ing. And in all sales by weight of the agricultural products here-
inafter named, the number of pounds per bushel as stated in the
following schedule shall be the true and legal standard: Alfalfa
seed, sixty pounds; barley, forty-eight pounds; navy and soja
beans, sixty pounds; blue grass seed, fourteen pounds; bran,
twenty pounds; buckwheat, forty-eight pounds; carrots, fifty
pounds; castor beans, forty-six pounds chestnuts, fifty-seven
pounds; clover seed, sixty pounds; coal (anthracite), eighty
pounds; corn in ear, seventy pounds; corn (shelled), fifty-six
pounds; corn meal forty-eight pounds; dried apples, twenty-
eight pounds; dried peaches (peeled), forty-pounds; dried
peaches (unpeeled), thirty-two pounds; flax seed, fifty-six
pounds; hemp seed, forty-four pounds; Hungarian grass seed,
forty-eight pounds; lime (unslacked), eighty pounds; malt,
thirty-eight pounds; millet seed, fifty pounds; oats, thirty-two
pounds; onions, fifty-seven pounds; orchard grass seed, fourteen
pounds; parsnips, fifty pounds; Virginia peanuts, twenty-two
pounds; Spanish peanuts, thirty pounds; peas (black eye and
other cow-peas), sixty pounds; potatoes (Irish), sixty pounds;
potatoes (sweet), fifty-six pounds; plastering hair, eight
pounds; red top grass seed, forty pounds; rye, fifty-six pounds;
salt, fifty pounds; timothy seed, forty-five pounds; tomatoes,
sixty pounds; turnips, fifty-five pounds; wheat sixty pounds;
cotton seed, thirty pounds.