Bushel - wikipedia Bushel This article is about the units of measurement. For surnames and other uses, see Bushell and Scheffel ( disambiguation ). This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( December 2009 ) Bushel Queensland Government Standard Imperial Bushel. Queensland Museum Unit information Unit system imperial and US customary Unit of volume Symbol bsh or bu Unit conversions ( imperial ) 1 imp bsh in...... is equal to... imperial units 6998302832942720000 ♠ 8 gal metric units 6998363687200000000 ♠ 36.368 72 L US dry units 6998312542523945960 ♠ 8.2565 gal imperial / US units 6998363687943590400 ♠ 2219. 36 cu in Unit conversions ( US ) 1 US bsh in...... is equal to... US dry units 6998302832942720000 ♠ 8 gal metric units 6998352391000000000 ♠ 35.2391 L imperial units 6998293426194436760 ♠ 7.7515 gal imperial / US units 6998352390701668800 ♠ 2150. 42 cu in A full bushel is represented by a basket in the lower right. A bushel ( abbreviation : bsh. or bu. ) is an imperial and US customary unit of weight or mass based upon an earlier measure of dry capacity. The old bushel was equal to 2 kennings ( obsolete ), 4 pecks or 8 gallons and was used mostly for agricultural products such as wheat. In modern usage, the volume is nominal, with bushels denoting a mass defined for each commodity differently. The name `` bushel '' is also used to translate similar units in other measurement systems. Contents 1 Name 2 History 3 Volume 4 Weight 5 Other units 6 See also 7 References 8 External links Name The name comes from the Old French boissiel and buissiel, meaning `` little box ''. It may further derive from Old French boise, thus meaning `` little butt ''. History The bushel is an intermediate value between the pound and ton or tun that was introduced to England following the Norman Conquest. Norman statutes made the London bushel part of the legal measure of English wine, ale, and grains. The Assize of Bread and Ale credited to Henry III c. 1266 defined this bushel in terms of the wine gallon, while the c. 1300 Assize of Weights and Measures usually credited to Edward I or II defined the London bushel in terms of the larger corn gallon. In either case, the bushel was reckoned to contain 64 pounds of 12 ounces of 20 pence of 32 grains. These measures were based on the relatively light tower pound and were rarely used in Scotland, Ireland, or Wales during the Middle Ages. When the Tower system was abolished in the 16th century, the bushel was redefined as 56 avoirdupois pounds. The imperial bushel established by the Weights and Measures Act of 1824 described the bushel as the volume of 80 avoirdupois pounds of distilled water in air at 62 ° F ( 17 ° C ) or 8 imperial gallons. This is the bushel in some use in the United Kingdom. Thus there is no distinction between liquid and dry measure in the imperial system. The Winchester bushel was the volume of a cylinder 18.5 in ( 46.99 cm ) in diameter and 8 in ( 20.32 cm ) high, which gives an irrational number of cubic inches. The modern American or US bushel is a variant of this, rounded to exactly 2150.42 cubic inches, less than one part per ten million less. It is also somewhat in use in Canada. Volume 1 imperial bushel = 8 imperial gallons = 4 imperial pecks = 7001363687200000000 ♠ 36.368 72 litres ≈ 8.2565 US dry gallons ≈ 9.6076 US fluid gallons ≈ 7003221936000000000 ♠ 2219. 36 cubic inches 1 US bushel = 8 US dry gallons = 4 US pecks = 7003215042000000000 ♠ 2150. 42 cubic inches ≈ 9.3092 US fluid gallons ≈ 7001352391000000000 ♠ 35.2391 litres ≈ 7.7515 imperial gallons Weight A table of weights from the secretaries of the different states, showing the number of pounds which their laws recognize as a bushel of different articles. c. 1854 Bushels are now most often used as units of mass or weight rather than of volume. The bushels in which grains are bought and sold on commodity markets or at local grain elevators, and for reports of grain production, are all units of weight. This is done by assigning a standard weight to each commodity that is to be measured in bushels. These bushels depend on the commodities being measured, and on the moisture content of the commodity. Some of the more common ones are : Oats : USA : 32 lb ( 14.5150 kg ) Canada : 34 lb ( 15.4221 kg ) Barley : 48 lb ( 21.7724 kg ) Malted barley : 34 lb ( 15.4221 kg ) Shelled maize ( corn ) at 15.5 % moisture by weight : 56 lb ( 25.4012 kg ) Wheat at 13.5 % moisture by weight and soybeans at 13 % moisture by weight : 60 lb ( 27.2155 kg ) Soybeans at 13 % moisture by weight : 60 lb ( 27.2 kg ) Other specific values are defined ( and those definitions may vary within different jurisdictions, including from state to state in the United States ) for other grains, oilseeds, fruits, vegetables, coal, hair and many other commodities. Government policy in the United States is to phase out units such as the bushel and replace them with metric mass equivalents. Other units The German bushel was the Scheffel. The Polish bushel ( korzec ) was used as measure of dry capacity. It was divided into 4 quarters ( ćwierć ) and in the early 19th century had a value of 128 litres in Warsaw and 501.116 litres in Kraków. The Spanish bushel ( fanega ) was used as a measure of dry capacity. It was roughly equal to 55.5 litres in Castille. See also Coomb ( unit ) Lamp under a bushel Winchester measure References ^ Jump up to : `` bushel, n. '', Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed., Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1888. Jump up ^ Ruffhead, Owen, ed. ( 1763 ), The Statutes at Large, Vol. I : From Magna Charta to the End of the Reign of King Henry the Sixth. To which is prefixed, A Table of the Titles of all the Publick and Private Statutes during that Time, London : Mark Basket for the Crown, pp. 22. ( in English ) & ( in Latin ) Jump up ^ Ruffhead, Owen, ed. ( 1763a ), The Statutes at Large, Vol. I : From Magna Charta to the End of the Reign of King Henry the Sixth. To which is prefixed, A Table of the Titles of all the Publick and Private Statutes during that Time, London : Mark Basket for the Crown, pp. 148 -- 149. ( in English ) & ( in Latin ) & ( in Norman ) ^ Jump up to : William J. Murphy. `` Tables for Weights and Measurement : Crops ''. University of Missouri Extension. Archived from the original on 25 May 2007. Retrieved 18 December 2008. Jump up ^ Marketing Oats in Canada http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/all/sis10952 Jump up ^ purdue.edu pdf with equation for moisture Jump up ^ Alexander, John Henry ( 1850 ), `` Weight and Measure Systems : Warsaw '', Universal Dictionary of Weights and Measures, Ancient and Modern ; Reduced to the Standards of the United States of America, Baltimore : John D. Tot for Wm. Minifie & Co., pp. 151 -- 152. Jump up ^ Rykaczewski, Erazm ( 1851 ), `` Korzec '', Dokładny Słownik Polsko - Anglielski i Anglielsko - Polski, Czerpany z Najlepszych Źrodeł Krajowych i Obcych, Berlin : W. Księgarni b. Behra, p. 98. ( in Polish ) & ( in English ) External links U.S. Commercial Bushel Sizes for Agricultural Crops Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bushel&oldid=792669609 '' Categories : Units of volume Imperial units Customary units of measurement in the United States Grain production Hidden categories : Articles with Latin - language external links Articles with Norman - language external links Articles with Polish - language external links Articles needing additional references from December 2009 All articles needing additional references Pages using deprecated image syntax Articles containing French - language text All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from August 2015 Articles with unsourced statements from April 2016 Articles containing German - language text Articles containing Polish - language text Articles containing Spanish - language text Talk Contents About Wikipedia Català Čeština Dansk Deutsch Eesti Español Esperanto Euskara فارسی Français Italiano עברית മലയാളം Bahasa Melayu Nederlands 日本 語 Norsk nynorsk Nouormand Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча Polski Português Русский Simple English Slovenčina Slovenščina Suomi Svenska Türkçe Українська Winaray 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 27 July 2017, at 22 : 05. 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Question: how many pound in a bushel of corn
Answer: 56