Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-02-20
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Weights and Measures OF Various
Farm Products, and other Things
In Various Countries.
HEAPING MEASURES.

HEAPING MEASURES.
Potatoes, turnipS and esculent roots,
apples and other fruits, meal, bran
and in some States oats, are sold by
heaping measure, which contains 2,S16
cubic inches.
BARREL MEASURE.
Rice, 800 TBS; -four 1876; powder p TBS;
cider and other liquids, 30 gallons;
corn, 5 bushels, shelled. By this latter
measure crops are estimated, aud corn
bought and sold throughout most of
the Southern and Western States. At
New Orleans a barrel of corn is a -four
barrel full of ears. In some parts of
the West it is common to count a
hundred ears TO a bushel.
TON WEIGHT AND TON MEASURE.
A ton of hay, or any coarse, bulky
article usually sold by that measure, is
twenty gross hundred, that is, $3.50
pounds, though in many places that
ridiculous old fashion is being done
away, and 2,0O0 pounds only counted
to the ton.
COMPUTE WEIGHT OF CATTLE BY
MEASURE.
Ascertain the girth back of the
shoulders, and the length along the
back, from the square of the butt0ck to
a point even with the square of the
shoulder blade; say the girth is six
feet four inches, and the length 5 feet
3 inches, which multiplied together,
gives 81 feet. Multiply this by %, the
number Of pounds allowed to the foot,
between and feet girth, and the re-
suit is 713 pounds, for the number of
pounds of beef in the four quarters.
Girths from seven to 9 feet allow 81
pounds to the foot. Cattle must be fat
and square to hold out weight.
TO MEASURE CORN IN THE EAR.
Find the cubic inches as above, and
divided by ISIS, the number of inches
in heaped bushel, and take two
thirds of the quotient fer the number
of bushels ofshelled coru. This is upon
the rule of giving three half bushels of
ears to make bushei of grain. Some
falls short and some overruns this
measure.
GOVERNMENT LAND MEASURE.
A township is six miles square, and
contain So sections, 23,040 acres. A
section, one mile square, GAO acres. A
quarter section, half mile square, $50
acres. As this is one hundred and six
ty rods square, strip one rod wide, or
every rod in width, is an acre. d half
a quarter section is half mile long
north and south, almost universally,
and one-fourth ola mile wide, so acres.
4 quarter section is one-fourth Of a
mile square, 40 acres, and is the small
est sized tract, except fractions, ever
sold by the Government. The price is
$1.25an acre.
MANURE MEASURE.
This is generally estimated by the
load, which is just about as definite as
tie phrase "about as big as piece of
chalk" 1t ought to be measured by
the yard or cord. Il cubic yard is q
feet, each of which contains 1,72S cubic
inches. 4 cubic cord is 129 cubic feet.
rs the me st of farmers have an idea in
Their minds of the size OF a pile of
wood containing cord, they would
readily compare that with the qantity
of manure if stated in cords. Every
cart or wagon-box, before it leaves the
makers shop, ought to have the cubic
feet and inches it will contain indeli-
bly, marked upon it. This would ena-
bic the owner to calculate the amount
OF his grain, roots, earth, stone or ma
'nure.
10 TO MEASURE A CRIB OF CORN.
An estimate of the contents of q crib
of corn in the'ear may be made as fol-
lows: Level the corn in the crib, meas
ure the length, breadth and height
which it occupies; multiply these to-
sether, and this product by (the
decimal f. this will give the amount
in sheiied corn-supposing the bushel
of ears will produce buta half bushel of
grains. If the above product be multi
piled by 0.S, we will have the actual
contents of corn in the ear. Ears
which are very productive will yield
more than half; for this proper allow
ances are to be made.