The Shasta courier., 1868-07-11
SHASTA COURIER.
Valuable Table.

Valuable IaDle.
Barrel Measure-Cider and other liquids:
ao Gallons. Rice, 600 pounds. Flour, l96
ms Powder. 25fbs.
Rusbel Measure-W Wheat, beans, potatoes
and clover seeds, 60tbs. Corn. rye, faxseed
and onions. Sc fbs Corn on the cob, 20 TBS.
Buckwheat, 52tbs. Barley, 4S TBS. Hemp
seed "A TBS. Timothy seed, As TBS. Castor
beans. 46 TBS, Oats, 35 TBS. Bran, 20 lbs.
BIue grass seed. IA TBS. Salt, 85 TBS. Dried
apples, "a TBS. Dried peaches, 80 fbs.
4 boop. 181 inches diameter, holds Win
chester busheI. A boxll2 inches square, and
l-32 deep, will hold half a bushe.
A Gallon Measure-An English Imperial
gallon is 10 TBS of distilled water at 62 de-
grees Fahrenheit when the barometer stands
at 80 degrees.
Land Measure-An English Imperial re
is 1910 square yards, or l60 square rods
A square of l3 rods upon each side is com
monty counted an acre it is 9 rods over
measure. square % yards wide upon
each side is one-tenth of an acre.
English acre, 4S40 square yards Scotch,
6.l5O: Irish. 1910; Hamburg, IL ,545 Am
sterdam, 9.722; Dantzic, 6,540; France,
(hectare) IL, $780, Prussia. (morgan) 3.053.
Government Land Measure. "A township,
sc sections, each mile square.
A section $40 acres.
A quarter section, half mile long, north
and south, and quarter of a mile wide, 80
acres.
A sixteenth section, quarter of mile
square, 40 acres.
The sections are all numbered one to tbry-
six, commencing at the northeast corner.
The sections are divided in quarters, which
are named by the cardinal points. The
quarters, are all divided in the same wav.
The description of forty acre lot would
read The south half OF the west half of the
southwest quarter section l in township "a,
north of range 7 west, or as the case might
be.
Mile Measure-A standard English mile.
which is the measure that we use, is $3.50
feet in length, 1,760 yards or $40 rods. A
strip one rod wide and one mile long is two
acres. By this it is easy to calculate how
much land is taken up by roads, and also
how much is wasted by fences.
A 9 Sabbath days journey" l. .l52 yards,
Is yards less than two thirds of mile.
A days journey, 335 miles.
A reek, 10 feet. IL inches.
A palm, inches.
A fathom. feet.
A reck foot is l22 inches.
A Hebrew foot is l-2l2 of an English foot.
A cubit is feet.
A great cdbit is IL feet.
An Egyptian cubt is 2l ,S8S.
A span Is III, 644.
Board Measure-Boards are sold by su-
perfcial measures, at so much per foot of
one inch or less in thickness, adding one
fourth to the price of each quarter inch in
thickness over an inch.
Grain Measures in Bulk-multiply the
width and length of the pile together, and
that product by the hight, and divide by
$3.50. aud you have the contents in bushels.
A Ton Weight-In San Francisco a ton is
1000 pounds. In most places ton of bay,
etc., is 2,240 pounds.
A ton of round timber is 40 cubit feet of
square timber, 54 cubit feet.
"A quarter" of corn or other grain sold
by the bushel is eight imperial bushels, or q
quarter of ton.
A ton of liquid measures is 252 gallons.
A frkin of butter is Sc pounds, tub Of
butter is S4 pounds.
A bale of cotton in Egypt is 80 TBS. 1n
America commercial bale is 400 tbs though
cut up to vary from $50 to 420 in different
localities.
A bale or bag of Sea Island cotton is SOC
TBS.
Wool-In England wool is sold by the
sack or boil of % stone which at IA Tbs t.
the stone, is 30S TBS.
A pack of wool is II stone 2 TBS. which i,
rated as pack load for horse 1t is 240 TBS
A tod of wool is 2 stone IA lbs. A wey o
wool is 69 tods. Two weys sack. A Glove
of wool is hafa stone.
The Stone weight is IA TBS when weighing
wool, feathers, hay etc., but a stone of beef
fish, cheese, is only TBS,
last is an English measure of variou,
articles.
A last of soap, ashes, herrings, and some
similar things is II barrels.
A last of corn is II quarters.
A last of gunpowder is "a barrels.
A last of flax or feathers is l ZOO TBS.
A last of wool is II sacks.
Coal-A chaldron of coal is 5S2 cubi,
feet, or by measure. sc heaped bushels. A
heaped bushel of anthracite coal weighs 81
fbs. making $3.50 lbs to the chaldron.
Wood-A cord of wood is l2S solid feet il
this country and England. la France it i,
SIC feet. We cord wood four feet long, il
piles of four feet by eight.
In New Orleans wood is retailed bv The
pound and to limited extent in New York
1t is also sold by the barrel. A load of wood
in New York is 42s cubic feet, or one third
of cord.
Wood is sold in England by the stack, skid
quintal billet and bun!le.
A stack is 108 solid feet, and usually is
piled II feet long, feet high, and feet
wide
A quintal of wood is 100 fbs
A skid is a round bundle of sticks, 4 feet
long. one notch skid % inches three
notch skid % inches. A four notch skid 33
inches. A five notch skid 3S inches.
A YOUNG fellow in Michigan dreamed that
he went to Fremont, Ohio, and married :
pretty girl whom he bad never seen before
and acting on his mothers advice, he pack ed
his trunk and started for Ohio. He searched