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Show WEIGHT OF BUSHEL OF CORN Most State Laws Recognize 70 Pounds of Ears or 56 Pounds of Shelled as Standard. The laws of most of the. states recognize recog-nize 70 pounds of ears or 5G pounds of shelled corn as a bushel of corn. These weights are reliable, says the United States department of agriculture, agricul-ture, when the ears or shelled corn contain only 15 per cent, of water. About one-third the weight of ear corn as customarily harvested in the northern north-ern states is water, while that harvested harvest-ed in the drier sections of the South contains less than 15 per cent of water. |