956 PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION G. 
No. 18.—“THE FARMERS’ WEIGHTS AND 
MEASURES.” 
By Henry Lorp, G.T.C.A.C., Lecturer in Agriculture, Sydney 
Technical College. 
(Read Wednesday, 12 January, 1898.) 
[ Abstract. | 
Tuer farmers’ weights and measures (British) are terribly com- 
plicated. If a farmer wants to know the price of wheat, he is 
probably told that wheat is worth so much per guarter in London ; 
yet a wheat-buyer comes round and offers him so much per sack 
for his wheat which yielded so many bushels per acre, when the 
seed wheat per acre was only so many pecks or perhaps only so 
many pounds. The farmer has so many miles of fencing on his 
farm, most of it put up by contract at so much per rod or pole, 
although so many chains of fencing he put up himself. The Jast 
rainfall gave so many points of rain. The farmer’s fish-pond 
(that -is, when the farmer has a fish-pond) is so many fathoms 
deep, so many feet wide, and so many yards long. 
The farmer goes on using a large number of units of measure 
or weight, as shown in the four following lists (marked A, B, C, D,) 
of weights and measures. 
(A.) MEASURES OF LENGTH. 
Metric System. British System. 
Myriametre ............ 10000:000 Mule mreeeemce tener 1760-00000000 
iKailometre sass. sce 1000-000 IDWS NE Soncossos0c 220: 
Hectometre ........... 100-000 (harness DD: 
Decametremrereeeeees 10-000 Pole, or Rod ...... 5S) 
Metre (unit) ..... ...... 1-030 Hathomie nese seeee: 2: 
Decimetre sa. ceeeeee ees 0:100 Wards (amis) saseeeeee Te 
Centimetre............... 0:010 Foot 5 : 
Millimette va 0-001 Tink STITT -B2000000 
Tet =. 1:093633056 ya d. Hand SpucoOoO cAcone 011111111 
Mee pe Waals teas 0-06250000 
Tan chveas-c eae 0°02777777 
Barleycorn ......... 000925925 
Ditie ve aueeen 0:00231481 
Pont eee ee 0:00027777 
