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Show SAYS LETTER DOES NOT EFFACE DOUBT Owner of Weighing Machine Probably Wonders if Scale Will Drop From Eyes of Expert. Explaining that he has weighed himself him-self on each of the four corners and in the middle of his wagon scales and adjusted them until he weighs the same in one position as in the other four, a merchant in one of the smaller towns of the state has written to Heber C. Smith, commissioner of the state dairy and food bureau, asking that the scales be released from condemnation. The thing that most interested the commissioner the man failed to explain. Mr. Smith is consumed with curiosity to know how the merchant weighed himself while standing in the positions named. In each instance he must he several feet from the balance fixtures of the scales and on the blind side of the case holding them. Yet he say's in the letter that he weighed himself. As a further evidence that he has adjusted his scales until they must meet with the requirements of the state law, the author of the explanatory letter let-ter says that he first weighed himself upon several other scales in the community com-munity to make sure that he was qualified to . serve as a standard of weight. Unfortunately for the inventor in-ventor of the ingenious test, his methods meth-ods are not up to the requirements of the law, says the commissioner. |