Show Congress May Regulate The Size of Flour Barrels I I I The flour barrel is is 0 next In line for tor standardization A bill reported fa favorably favorably fa- fa from the committee on coinage coinage coinage coin coin- age weights and measures in the house of ot representatives of congress has as its object the standardization of the barrel of flout flour and the built bulk packages of ot hominy meal and grits When this goes through housekeepers housekeep housekeep- ers will be able to buy the same standard standard standard stan stan- dard package of flour lour from rom New Jer Jer- Jersey Jersey sey to Ore Oregon on This does not mean that they will be unable to buy a a. half pound or a pound if they wish The standardization applies chiefly to the I. I I package grocer sent from manufacturer to At present manufacturers of ot flour and other commercial foods use different different dif dit- dif dif- ferent sized packages In various states This means an added expense in keeping the Yar varying in sizes in stock If Ifa Ifa ifa a manufacturer manufacturers is s doing business in several states The new bill will provide that flour and meal be he sold eold in bulk In decimal parts of or pounds which is the basis of ot calculation The packages will be beIn bein bein in multiples of five ten twenty five and pound fifty units All fractional weights such as the twenty and a pound half tack sack anc and the forty eight and a pound half sack will be done away with by this thiR method |