Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1880-06-08
FIELD AND FIREsIDE,
Useful Information.
WHAT A BARREL WEIGHS.

"hAt a BARREL WEIGHS.
Rice. 600 lbs; Flour, 1876 lbs; Powder.
IS lbs; Corn, in Kentucky, Tennessee, &C.,
5 hnshels of shelled corn; in New Orleans,
flour barrel full of ears. Potatoes o.
bushels; Pork-s'clear," .mess," prime"
200 lbs. Beef. 200 lbs.
GRAIN, &C SOLD BY WEIGHT.
Wheat. beans, potatoes, clover seed, GO
lbs to the bushel
Corn, rye, fax seed onions, Sc lbs.
Corn on the cob, 20 lbs
Buckwheat, SO lbs.
Barley, 4S lbs
Hemp seed, d. lbs
Timothy seed, As lbs.
Castor beans, &c lbs.
Oats, IS lbs.
Bran, 20 lbs.
Blue grass seed, II lbs.
Salt, (coarse,) IS lbs.
Dried apples, "a lbs.
Dried peaches, % and 33 lbs.
Peanuts, % lbs.
MEASURE OF LENGTH
IL Inches-1 Foot.
Feet Yard
81 Yards-1 Rod, Pole or Perch.
40 Poles-1 Furloug.
g. Furlongs, or 1860 Yards-1 Mile
GO LIS Mics-1 Degree Of a great circle
of the Earth.
SURFACE MEASURE
IA Square inc!les-1 Square foot.
9 Square iect-1 Square yard.
500 Square yards-1 Square rod or perch.
40 Square perches-1 rood.
Roods-1 Acre.
GAO Acrcs-1 Square mile.
COMPARATIVE SIZE IN SQUARE YARDS OF
ACRES IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES.
Eogiish and American acre, 1870 square
yards; Scotch, 6.t50; Irish, 1910; Ham~
burg, IL ,545; Amsterdam, Q, 1872: Dantzic.
$500; Franco, II 900; Prussia, 1858.
ibis difference should be borne in mind
IN reading of the products per acre in difIer>
ent countries
GOVERNMENT LAND MEASURE.
Township-36 sections each a mile SQUARE
Section-640 acres
Quarter section, half mile square-1GO
acres.
An eighth section, half mile long, quarter
mile wide-S0 acres.
a sixteenth section, quarter mile square
40 acres.
Section sixteen of township is always
the school section.
SQUARE MEASURE
1H Square incbes-1 Square foot.
Square feet-1 Square yard.
100 Square feet-1 Square of flooring,
roofing, &c.
*O3 Square yards Square rod.
sc Square yards-1 Rood of building.
GEOGRAPHICAL or NAUTICAL MEASURE.
6 Feet-1 Fathom.
ITO Fathoms-l Furlonc.
6,O75 As Feet-l Nautical mile or knot.
Nautical miies-1 League
~ Leagues, or GO geographical
sou Degrccs-The carth's circum.
fereIce-24 ,S55! miles, nearly.
MEASURE CT soL1D11Y
1,T2S Cubic inches-1 Cubic foot.
% Cubic feet-1 Cubic yard.
16 Cubic fect-1 Cord wood. or foot of
wood.
Cord feet-1 Cord.
90 Feet round or SO feet hewn timber
az Cubic feet-1 Ton shipping,
MEASURE OF. TIME.
60 Seconds Minute.
GO Minutes Hour.
"a Hours-l Day.
Days. Week.
% Days-l Lunar Month.
%, 20. 80 or 81 Doys-1 Cal. Month.
IL Cal. Months-l Year
365 D4ys-1 Com Year.
S66 Days-l Leap Year.
1851 Days-1 Julian Year.
365 D., H., 49 NJ, 40 ST. Solar Year
S65 D., 6 Il, 8 ~, II ST. Siderial Year.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Boards are sold by Superficial Measure.
A Firkin of butter is Sc lbs.
A Tub OF butter is 81 lbs.
a bale of cotton in Egypt is 90 lbs.
a Commercial Bale in America is 400 lbs
A Pack of wool is 80 lbs.
A Tod of wool is % lbs.
a Wey of wool is 1872 lbs.
Two Weys of wool are Sack.
4 Glove of wool is lbs
A Ton of hay is 1900 or 224O lbs, &C.
cordiDg TO custom.
A Bale of hay is 500 lbs.
A Cube OF solid now Of h.y 10 fact
square weighs Ton.
A Chaldron of coal is Sc heaped Bushels.
A heaped Bushel of Anthracite coeI
weighs so lbs
A Cord of wood is 1913 solid Feet.
TO MEASURE CORN IN TIE CRIB.
Two cubic feet of good, sound, dry corn
In the ear will make bushel OF shelled corn.
10 get, then, the quantity of shelled corn in
eEio OF corn in the ear measure the length,
breath and height Of the crib, inside of the
RAJ, multiply the length by the breadth,
ana the product by the height; then divide
tne result by two, and you have tue number
OF bushels OF shelled corn in the crib.
In measuring the Height, Of course The
helght OF the corn is Intended There viii |