Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-05-09

showing that Is pounds Of water have been
converted into slod, dry substance.
To Measure Ton Of Hdy.-One hundred
cubic feet of hay, in solid NOV or stack, will
weigh ton.
To Measure Cattle Jy Compute WagM-
Ascertain the grih back of the shoulders. and
the length along the back, from The square of
the buttock, to point even with the point of
the shoulder blade say the grih is feet 4
inches, and the length feet inches, which,
multiplied together, gives 81 feet Multiply
this by %, the number of pounds allowed TO
the loot, between and feet grth, and the re-
suit is lib pounds, for the number of pounds of
beet In the four quarters Girhs, from 10 9
feet allow 81 pounds To the foot Cattle must
be fat and square built To hold out weight.
To Measure Gran in Bins, multiply the
length and width together, and that product by
the height in cubic inches, and divide by 2I5O,
and you have the number Of bushels.
To Measure Corn in the Ear find the cubic
inches as above, and divide by 1915, the cubic
in a heaped bushel, and take iwo-ihirds of the
quotent for the number of bushels of shelled
corn This is upoE the rule of giving three
heaping half bushels of ears to make a bnshel
Of grain. Some falls short aud some oyerruns
this measure.
Board Measures. Boards are sold by face
measure. Multiply the width in inches by any
number Of pieces of equal length by the inches
of the length. Divide by IA, and the quo
tient is the number Of feet, for any thickness
under an inch. Every fourth inch increase of
thickness adds fourth 10 the number of feet in
the face measure.
Land Measure.-Every farmer should have
rod measure, a light stiff pole, just l6 l-2 feet
long. Tor measuring land. By little practice
he can learn to step jus, rod at five steps.
which will answer very well for ordinary farm
work. Ascertain the number of rods in width
and length Of any LOT you wish to measure, and
multiply one into the other and divide by 100,
and you have the number of acres, as 100
square rods make square acre, measure 13
rods upon each side. This lacks one rod Oh
being full measure.
Government Land MeaSRre.-A township is
six miles square, and contains 81 sections, 23,-
040 acres. section, one mile square, GAO
acres quarter section, half a mile square,
l60 acres As this is l66 rods square, strip
one rod wide, or every rod in width, is an acre.
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north and south, almost universally, and fourth
OF mile wide, so acres. A quarter-quarier
section is one-four,h of mile square, 40 acres,
and is The smallest sized tract, except fractions,
ever sold by the government. The price is
! ST ,25 an acre.
Measure Of Me.-Whe engaged in the
compilation of this valuable article, we receiv-
cd The following table from friend in Maine,
who, in remarking upon the indisposlion of
some persons TO take an agricultural paper,
''because, ".they say, sit pertains to the system
0r UooN ra'uii'g, Gays sou'e ou)ect 10 the
Plough" because ''they can't aflord it," We
are sorry for their poverty, but more so for ig-
norance and stupid determination TO remain in
it. This single article, which if less than the
fitieth part Of what we give them for fifty
cents, would cost any one of them fifty times
the price of the "Plough," in labor, to CLEAN
this information from fifty dollars worth of
books. Our measure Of distance is by the
standard English mile, which is $3.50 feet in
length, or l,760 yards, or SEQ rods.
An English geographical mile is equal to
2,050 yards.