Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1861-02-07
CUBIC MEASURE.

Many persons experience no little difficulty
and inconvenience an ascertaining the capacity
of boxes bins, hogsheads, cisterns and the like,
in bushels, gallons, &C. 1t is often very desir-
able to ascertain the number of bushels of grain
there is in given bin, without the trouble of
measuring it by the half bushel; also, to know
the capacity of cistern or reservoir in gallons.
BY remembering the following table it will be
comparatively an easy task to effect any desired
measurement There are
PIG feet in a square. 537.G inches in peck.
1913 cord. 26S.S ." dry gallon.
81 yard. 23l ." wine do.
"a "a feet in perch. 2S2 d" ale do.
1928 inches in a foot. 27.2 " dry quart.
2l50.42" bushel. 5775 " wine do.
Surprising a bin is ~ feet long, feet wide,
and feet deep; Multiply the length in feet by
the breadth and the product by the depth and
we have 2SS cubic feet as the contents of the
bin Now cubic foot is about s., or eight
tenths of bushel, and 2SS multiplied by s.,
gives 1904 as the capacity of the binin bushels
The cord is used to measure wood, bark &c.,
and is two cubes measuring feet each way
joined together, and containing 1913 cubic feet.
ut is proper to remark that in practice we often
find in a cord of wood exposed for sale the meas
urements are somewhat less than those laid
down in the rule, owing, no doubt entirely to
different understanding of the theoretical rule J
We "speak feelingly" when we urge all to re-
member that the law is that load shall be s
feet long. feet wide and feet high to meas
ure a cord feet in length without a cores
ponding increase in the hight ard width, not
being up to the legal or economical standard
at least so far as the buyer is concerned.
The square is used by contractors for moving
earth, and is cube measuring G feet each way
and containing cubic yards. The superficial
square is used in measuring the area of the va.
rious kinds of roofing it is square surface
measuring 10 feet each way, containing 100
square feet. 1t is said that one thousand shin.
giles will lay a square, but as they are usually
put on, they will lay few feet more than
square. The yard used ia areas is surface
measuring three feet each way, containg min,
square feet.
The perch is used by masons in laying ston,
work-supposing the wall to be foot and
half thick, then rod in length of the wall ont
louI HlSH VIII COitdlH VIE pcItll, Ut -i'io cuOI
feet The superficial perch is a square surfac,
measuring sixteen and half feet each way con
tanning two hundred and seventy-two and one
quarter feet. An acre contains one hundred
and sixty perches.
The Jushel is the old Winchester bushel o
England, which is used in the United States a
a standard for dry measure and contains 2l504
cubic inches; the Imperial Bushol, which is tn
present English standard, contains 22lS1S
cubic inches.
The golion here givenis the standard for DR.
measure. and contains 26S.S cubic inches. III
standard gallon of liquid measure contains %
cubic inches. The old Ale gallon contains rs
cubic inches. The Imperial (Engish) gallo
S contains 27z.27a cubic inches. y gallon (23
? inches) of distilled water weighs S.33S9 pounds
f Avoirdupois. The standard Avoirdupois poun
is equa! in weight to 27.7Ol5 cubic inches {
distilled water. A cubic foot of water weigh
about G2.3S pounds.
c The fractions are given in decimals, but an
y one competent to compute interest can easil
0 work any example requiring their use.