Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-06-03
The farm aud fireside.
USEFUL INFORMATION.

URAlN, EIC, LID by w cISaA. " hee1'
beans, potatoes, c over seed, 90 lbs. to the
bushel.
Corn, rye, fax seed, onions, 56 lbs.
Corn on cob, 70 lbs.
Buckwheat 81 lbs.
Barley, 4s lbs.
Hemp seed, A lbs.
Timothy seed, As lbs.
Castor beans 46 lbs.
Oates, 35 lbs.
Bran, 20 lbs.
Blue grass seed, IA lbs.
Salt, (coarse), S5 lbs.
Dried apples, "a lbs.
Dried peaches, % and % lbs.
Peanuts, % lbs.
MEASURE OF LENGTH.-12 Inches-1 foot
3 Feet yard.
81 Yards rod, pole or perch.
40 Poles-1 furlong.
Furlongs, or 1,760 yards, mile.
50 1.15 Mles-1 degree of great circle
of the earth.
SURFACE MEAsUHE.-144 square inches
/ square foot.
9 Square feet square yard.
3O2 Square yards-l square rod or perch
80 Square perches-1 rood.
Roods-1 acre.
$40 Acres-1 square mile.
COMPARATIVE SIZE IN SQUARE YARDS OF
ACRES, OF DIFFERENT CoUNTRIEs.-Eng'
lish and American acre, 4,840 square yards
Scotch, $3.50; Irish 7,840; Hamburg, H.,
545; Amsterdam, 9,722; Dantzic, $3.50
France, 1880; Prussia, 3,053.
This difference should be borne in mind
in reading of the products per acre in differ
ent countries.
GOVERNMENT LAND MEAsURE.-Town
ship-36 sections, esch q mile square.
Section-640 acres.
Quarter section, halfmile square-16(
acres.
An eighth section, half mile long, quar-
ter mile wide-80 acres.
A sixteenth section, quarter mile square
40 acres.
Section sixteen of township is always tb'
school section.
SQUARE MEAsURE.-144 square inches
l square foot.
9square feet square yard.
100 square feet-.1 square Of flooring, roof
ing, etc.
got square yards-l square rod.
SO square yards--1 rood of building.
GEoGRAPHICAL OR NAUTICAL MEASURE
feet-1 fathom.
10 fathoms-1 furlong.
6,075.S0 feet-1 nautical mile or knot.
8 Nautical miles, league.
20 leagues, or 60 geographical miles,
degres.
3600-The earth's crcumference=24, 1856!
miles, nearly.
MEASURE OF SoL1D1TY.-1,72S cubic
inches-1 cubic foot.
81 cubic feet cubic yard.
16 cubic feet-1 cord foot, or foot of wood
8 cord feet cord.
40 feet round, or so feet hewn TIMBER
ton. E7 - '.."
AZ cubic feet ton shipping.
EARNING YoUR Own L1vING.-If your
father is so situated that the care of his
daughter is burden upon slender resources
you ought to relieve him by working fol
yourself. Every woman should be able tc
support herself, if there is need for so doing
Hundreds would be very much happier ii
they did so when the need was not pressing
We are 80 constituted that alternate periods
of work and rest are beneficial to US. Idle
ness is the bane of existence. The veries1
butterfly among girls would lead gayer life
if she had something more to do than to fiji
from flower to flower. am quite sure thai
the hard worked, tired-out shop-girls, who
have few hours for repose, are often happier
because more genuinely selfrespecting, than
are some indolent, dawdling young ladies
who kill time by reading silly novels, and
whose chief aim seems to be the preservation
from soil of their soft, useless hands.
A few years ago, teaching and sewing were
almost the only vocations open to educated
and gently. bred women. Now, all doors
open at her light touch, and the lady-not
less but more a lady if she honorably work.
has but to lay her finger on what latch she
pleases to choose. Work is not play. If she
wishes to earn money, she must give skill
patience and unselfsh diligence to her en-
terprise The market is crowded, and only
the best have chance.
But the young woman who resolutely and
cheerfully takes up calling, and who pur
sues it with steadfastness, has as good an op
portunity for success, as her brother has in
his field or profession. If it be her duty to
work and earn her own livelihood, she need
sacrifice no delicacy of sex nor lay aside any
of her beautiful womanly modesty in doing
so. She will also have positive anu not tc
be measured advantage if in her self support
ing career, she can live at home. In the best
boarding houses open to working women there
is much that is not like home-Er.
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