Thread: Potatoes

Perhaps your sister's memory is improving with age...

But as a 12 year old, I used to stagger under a full bag of wheat/barley/oats/superphosphate. dunno what they weighed, but more than a bale of hay.

Originally Posted by vnx205

Bags of wheat didn't weight the same as bags of barley.


BUSHEL WEIGHTS:
1 bu. Wheat or Soybeans=60 lbs
1 bu. Corn or Sorghum=56 lbs
1 bu. Barley=48 lbs.
1 bu. Oats =32 lbs.

A bushel is a measure of volume. Certainly the density of those grains varies a lot.

Yes, 180 lbs. was a bag of wheat. Canary was the heaviest bag but I don't remember its weight. Bagged grain was in its death throes by the mid-60's although still exported that way to certain countries without bulk handling facilities for some years.