Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-05-09
weights and Measures Of Various Farm
Products aud Other Things in vari-
Gus Countries.


In England aud America grain is generally
rated by the bushel, though i is not the same
measure; for here we use the Winchester BUSH
els which contains 2,l50 42.l00 cubic inches.
There, since 1926, the legal measure is called
the imperial bushel, which contains 2,2l6 Gu
bic inches so that 80 Of their bushels are aLou,
equal to 80 of ours.
The following are the commercial weights of
bushel ofdifIereni articles, viz: Wheat, beans,
potatoes and cloverseed, 60 pounds. Corn, rye,
faxseed and onions, Sc pounds. Corn on tile
cob weighs 20 pounds. Buckwheai, SO bar
ley, 4s; hempseed, a; timolhyseed, l5 cas-
tor-beans. 4G oats, 35 bran, 20 blue grass
seed, IA salt, so, according to one account,
but Onondaga salt is Sc, (the real weight of
coarse salt is IS pounds TO the bushe y dried
apples, 2l dried peaches, 80, according 10
table lately published in numerous papers, but
according TO our experience both are wrong.
We have seen thousands OF bushels sold at %
pounds TO the bushel, which will measure about
three pecks.
Heaping Observation-Disclosures. turnips, and
esculent roots, apples and other fruits, meal and
bran, aud in some States oats are sold by heap
ing measure, which contains 6l5 cubic inch
es. The size of Winchester bushe measure
is circular ring with straieh, sides inches
high and ls l-2 in diameter A box IL inches
square, with sides II l-32 inches high, will
hold half bushel.
Comparative Grain Measures Besides the
difference between the Winchester and imperi-
al aud heaped bushels, before stated, there are
dozen or more local bushels. For instance, at
Arlington, Eng, 8 gallons at Penrth, l6; at
Carlisle, 2i ; al Chester, 80; &c. In France,
the setter is as ,427 TO 900 compared with
the imperial bushel that is 4427-l000 bush
els. In Holland, the nrudde is as 3,l57. In
Prussia, the scheGei, l,479. In Poland, the
korsee, l,A5l. In Spain, the fanegd, l,599 !;
that is, 90 1000 over bushel and a-half.
Barrel Measures, s,-Rlce, 600 pounds flour,
l06 pounds; powder, 25 pounds cider and
other liquids, 80 gallons; corn, 5 bushels,
shelled. BY this latter measure crops are esl-
mated, and corn bought and sold througho
most of The Southern and Western States. At
| New Orleans, barrel Of corn is flour barrel
full Of ears. In some paris Of the West it is
common to count hundred ears for bushel.
| Ian Wdgh and Ton Medsme.--A ton Of
hay or any coarse bulky article usually sold by
that measure, is twenty gross hundred that is,
2,2io pounds; though in many places that ri
dculous old fashion is being done away and
1000 pounds only counted 10 a ton.
A tun Of timber, if round, consists of 40 Gu.
bic feet, ifsquare, 81 feet. A ,un of wine, is
252 gallons.
A Quarter Of Corn is the fourth Of ton, or
eight imperial bushels. This is an English
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very necessary to be known, So as TO understand
agricultural reports. So of several Of the fol
lowing weights and measures.
A Last Of soap, ashes, herring, &c, 10 bar
rels of corn, 10 quarters; of gunpowder, 81
barrels Of flax or feathers, 100; of wool, Il
sacks.
A Sack Of Wool is % stone; that is, IA
pounds TO the stone, 305 pounds.
A Boil Of Wool is the same weight
4 Pack Of Wool is II stone pounds-24(
pounds, pack load for horse.
A Ted Of Wool is sone, that is % pounds
G l-2 tods wey; and weys sack.
A Clore Of Wool is pounds, or halfa stone
Recolleci, stone is Ii pounds, when talking
of wool, feathers, &C., but when applied t,
beef, fish, and other meals, it is only pounds
A Truss Of Hay, new, 60 pounds old, sc
} of straw, 40 pounds. A load, SO trusses.
A FWkin cf Butter is So pounds; a tub, S4
A Scotch Pint contains los cubic inches, an,
is equal to 4 English pin,s.
A Farlot Of Wheat is 2l Ia Scotch pinis.
Troy WagM and AUoirdupois WagM.-
One hundred and lorly-iour pounds avordupoi
are equal 10 I75 pounds Troy-l75 ounce
Troy are equal tn 1872 ounces avoirdupois. Al
precious metals are bought and sold by Tro
weight.
The hiiogrd'nme of France is 900 gram
mes and equal 10 pounds ounces, 4 grain
avordupois.
A Chaldron Of Coal is So 3-s cubic feet gen
orally estimated SO bushels. A bushel of an
, lhracite coal weighs 80 pounds, which make
the weight of chaldron 2,Ss0.
Weights Of Cubic FOot.-Of sand or loos
earth, 95 pounds; compact soil, 1874; slron
or clayey soil, l27 pure clay, 1876; miAtur
of stones and clay, l60; masonry of stone
: 205; brick, 1875; cast iron, 450; steel, 469
copper, 466; lead, 700; silver, 654 gold,
~OS pi"h'ihet S'"oS. AOo "o'eat W.
tallow, SO; cork, l5 oak timber, 73; ms
hogany, &C; air, O.O753. In the above, frat
tions are disregarded.
A Bale Of Cotton, in Egypt, is 90 pounds
:, in America, commercial bale is 400 pound:
but is put up in different States varying fror
! 2S0 10 720 pounds. Sea Island cotton is pu
up in sacks of 800 pounds.
i A Bale Of Hay is 800 pounds.
. A Cord Of Wood is 1913 solid feet, usual
put up 8 feet long, feet wide and high |
u France a cord of wood is $40 feet.
A Stack Of Wood is Ios solid feet; 10 fee
= long, 8 high, and 3 wide. A skid of wood
: round bundle of small sticks, feet long
l girling for a one-notch, l6 inches two-notcl
: % inches three-notch, % inches four-notcl
l 80 inches 6ve-noich, 38 inches. 4 billet
: wood is similar to skid, being three feet long
7, 10 and ii inches round. They are sold b
c the score OF hundred. A score is 20 in nun
: ber.
Fdgots are bundles OF brush 8 feet long an
2 feet round. A load of fagols is so such bul
d dies. A quintai of wood is 100 pounds. A
n fuel should be sold by the pound.