Note 60 — Chapter XXIV · THE CONFLICT OF THE IMPERIAL AND METRIC SYSTEMS

I have even seen it put forward (in a book now before me) that our system has several bushels, indeed thirty is the number given; the ground for this assertion being that bushels of wheat, of oats, or peas, &c., are of different weights. The propagandist supposed no one would think of answering that it is the same with the Hectolitre, which contains different weights of different grains.