The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1857-05-20
Weights and Measures of various
Farm Products and ther Things
in Various Countries.

In England and America grain is gen.
orally rated by the bushcl, though it is
not the samc measure. for here VIC use
the Winchester bushel, which contains
2.l50 i2 90 cubic inches. There, since
1896, tho legal measure is called the i'm.
pcrlal bushel, which contains 2,2ls cubic
inches SO that 80 of their bushels arc
about equal to SO Of ours
Tho following are the commercial
weights of bushel Of different articles,
viz Wheat, bsans, potatoes and clover
seed. 60 pounds. Corn, rye, faxsocd aud
onions. Sc pounds. Corn on the cob
weighs 10 pounds. Buckwheat, 81; bar
ley, 48 hempseed, "A timothy seed, As 4;
cast beans, 46; oats, 35; bran, 20 /;
blue grass seed, A; salt, 80, according
to ono account, but Onondaga salt is 56,
(ihe real weight of coarse salt is s5
pounds to tho busbel J dried apples, "a
dried peaches, 33, according to table
lately published IN numerous papers, bat
according to our experience both are
wrong. We have seen thousands of
bushels sold at % pounds to the busbel
which will measure about three pecks
Heaping Measures Potatoes, tur-
nips, aud esculent roots apples and other
fruits, mcal and bran, and in some States
oats are sold by heaping measure. Which
contains 2, Is cubic inches. The size Of
Winchester busheI measure, is a circu-
lar ring with straight sides inches high
and lS l2 in diameter. A box 2 inch
es square, with sides M 1872 inches
high, will hold half a bushel
Comparative Grain Measures - Be.
sides the difference between tho Win.
chester aud imperial and heaped bush.
els, before stated, there are a dozen or
moro local bushels. For instance, at
Abingdon, Eug,, 9 gallons at Penrith,
l6; at Carlisle, "a at Chester, 80 Sc.
10 France, the setter is as 4,427 to 1000
compared with the imperial bushel tha,
is 4427.l000 bushels. Iu HollanA, the
muide is as 3,l57. In Prussia, the
sche6el, Lao. In Poland; the koyses
1851. In Spain, the fanega, 500; that
is 99.l00O over a bushels and a half
Barrel Measures Rice, 600 pounds
-four i96 pounds powder, 25 pounds
cider and other liquors, so gallons corn,
5 bushels, shelled. BY this lat ter meas
are crops are estimated, aud corn bought
and sold throughout most Of the South
eru aud Western States At Now Or.
leans. a barrel Of corn is -four barrel
full of ears. In some parts OF the Yves,
1t is common TO count hundred ears for
busbel
1'un Height and Tun Measure "A
tun Of hay or any coarse bulky article
usually sold by that measure, is twenty
gross hundred that is, 2;240 pounds
though in many places that ridiculous
old fashion is being done away, aud 1000
pounds only, counted to tun.
A tun of timber if round, consists Of
40 cubic feet; if square, 81 feet. A tun
of wioe is 252 gallons. .t.r...
A Quarter Of Corn is the fourth of a
tun, or eieh. imperial bushels This is
an English measure, not in use iu this
country, though very necessary to be
known, so as to understand agricultural
reports. So Of several Of the folio wing
weights and measures.
A Last, of soap, ashes, herring. SO.
i2 barrels Of corn, 10 quarters; of guo'
powder, "a barrels Of fax or feathers
1900; of wool, IL sacks
A Sack Of Wool is % stone that is
IA ipounas to the stone, sos pounas.