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== Introduction ==
An attachment could be seen to measures still in use 150 years after they had been officially replaced.
In Zeanuri (B), it was reported that many measures by weighted coexisted with the Decimal System, which became mandatory in the second decade of the 20<sup>th</sup> century. Up until then, for example, stone weights were used in the mills even though they were officially banned. Weights of that type, with add-ons in the forms of rings or irons stuck to the handle can still be seen in some local mills. 0}
In the last decades of the 20<sup>th</sup> century, a good number of measurement units still continued to be used in some places. These included the ''obrero'' or ''gizalana'' (the amount of land one worker could work in a day) as an area unit, the ''cántara ''or pitcher for wine, and the ''azumbre'' (roughly half a gallon), pound and liquid quart for wine, milk and oil. ''Fanegas ''(Spanish bushels) and ''celemines'' (smaller bushels with 12 to 1 ''fanega) ''were used for grain, flour and potatoes. Many of those measures have lost their currency and even the oldest people surveyed who had used them found it hard to accurately remember them.
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