Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1856-12-11

Ot'vdrious Farm Products and other hingS
IN TdrioGS Countries, r,f
In England and America grain is gen.
orally rated by the bushel, though it is not
the same measure for here we use the
Winchester bushcl, which contains ALSO
42-l00 cubic inches. There, since 1926,
the legal measure is called the imperial
bushel, which contains 2,2lS cubic inches;
so that 81 of their bushels are about equal
to 33 of ours. .it
The following are the commercial
weights of a bushel Of different articles,
viz: Wheat, beans, potatoes and cloverseed
60p6salo, Corn, rye, llaxseed and onions,
So n lmyl7. Corn OH the cob weighs 40
pounds. Buckwheat, So; barley, As
hemp seed, A timothy seed i5; castor
beans as; oats 80; bran 20 bluegrass
seed ia salt so, according to one account
but Onondaga salt is Sc, (the real weight
of coarse salt is s. pounds to the bushel }
dried appels, pa; dried peaches 80 ac-
oording to n table lately published in
numerous papers; but according TO our
experience both are wrong. We have
seen thousands of bushels sold at22 pounds
to the bushel, which will measure about
three pecls.
Hedping Measures Potatoes, turnips,
and e~sculent roots, apples and, other fruits
meal and bran, and in some States, oats,
are sold by heaping measure, which CON
tains 2,Sl6 cubic inches. The size of
Winchester hushel measure is a %circula'
ring with straight sides s inches higI
and Is l-2 in diameter. "A box II niche
square, with sides a. l-32 inches high
will hold half a bushel.
Conpardtire Grain .NeaSlUGS,-Beside
the differences between the Winchesie
and imperial and heaped bushels, as befor
stated, there are a dozen or more loca
bushels, For instance, at Abingdon, Ems
8 gallons; at Penri,h, l6 at Carlisle, 2
at Chester, -, &c. In France, the settle
is as 4,427 to 1000 compared with tn
imperial bushel that Is 4,427-l, 90
bushels. la Holland the mudde is as 3
l57. In Prussia, the schehel, l,479.
Poland, the korsee, ! ,45i. In Spain, III
fanega, 500; that is, 99-l 900 over
bushel and a half.
Barred .heasareS.-Rice 600 pound,
-four 1876 pounds; powder % pounds
cider and other liquids 80 gallons; COZ
5 bushels, shelled, BY this latter measuI
crops are estimated, and corn bought AT
sold throughout most Of the Southern al
Western States. At New Orleans, a ba
rel of corn is a -four barrel full of ears.
some parts of the West it is common
count a hundred ears for a bushel.
Tm Weight and TIN Measure. "A II
of hay or any coarse bulky article usual
sold by that measure, is twenty gross huf
bred; that is, 2240 pounds; though
many places that ridiculous old fashion
being done away and 1000 pounds on
counted to a tan. \ tun of timber,
round, consists of 40 cubic feet , if saua
"a feet. A tun of wine is252 gallons.
a Quarter ofCorn is the fourth of a Il
or eight imperial bushels, This is f,
English measure, not in use in this coul
try, though very necessary TO be know
so as to understand agricultural repor
So of several of the following weights al
measures.
II Last of soap, ashes, herring, Sc,
barrels; of corn 10 quarters; Of gunpo
der "a barrels; of flax or feathers 10
of wool IL sacks.
"A Sack of JVooi is % stone that
IA pounds TO the stone, 3OS pounds.
A Boz Of Wool is the same weight.
"A Plrh II Wooi is IL stone, 3 pour
-2fq yNMis. a pack load for a horse.
IA To4 Qf WOOL is 2 stone, that is
pounds; 6 l-2 Iods / wcy and : wey'
sack.