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CUBIC MEASURE. 



1728 Cubic Inches make . . . 



27 " Feet 



40 " " of Rough Timber 

 50 " " of Hewn do. 



108 " " 



128 " " 



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1 Cubic Foot. 

 1 " Yard. 



1 Load. 



1 Stack of Wood. 

 1 Cord. 



LONDON MARKET FRUIT A 



These being made either of osier or 

 deal shavings, vary triflingly in size 

 more than measures made of less flexi- 

 ble materials. They are as follow : — 



Sea-Kale Punnets. — Eight inches di- 

 ameter at the top, and seven inches and 

 a half at the bottom and two inches 

 deep. 



Radish Punnets. — Eight inches di- 

 ameter, and one inch deep, if to hold 

 six hands ; or nine inches by one inch 

 for twelve hands. 



Mush7-oom Punnets. — Seven inches 

 by one inch. 



Salading Punnets. — Five inches by 

 two inches. 



Half-Sieve. — Contains three imperial 

 gallons and a half. It averages twelve 

 inches and a half diameter, and six in- 

 ches in depth. 



Sieve. — Contains seven imperial gal- 

 lons. Diameter, fifteen inches ; depth, 

 eight inches. 



Bushel-Sieve. — Ten imperial gallons 



ND VEGETABLE MEASURES. 



and a half. Diameter at top, seven- 

 teen inches and three quarters ; depth, 

 eleven inches and a quarter. 



Bushel-Basket — Ought, when heaped, 

 to contain an imperial bushel. Di- 

 ameter at bottom, ten inches ; at top, 

 fourteen inches and a half; depth, se- 

 venteen inches. Walnuts, nuts, apples, 

 and potatoes are sold by this measure. 

 A bushel of the last-named, cleaned, 

 weighs 56 lbs., but 4 lbs. additional are 

 allowed if they are not washed. 



A Pottle is a long tapering basket 

 that holds about a pint and a half. 



Hand — Applies to a bunch of ra- 

 dishes, which contains from twelve to 

 thirty, according to the season. 



A Bundle contains six to twenty heads 

 of brocoli, celery, &c.; and in the case 

 of asparagus from 100 to 150. 



A Bunch is applied to herbs, and va- 

 ries much in size according to the 

 season. 



HEAPED MEASURES. 



English market-gardeners, and re- 1 7, that for potatoes, fruit, &c., the 

 tailers of fruit, potatoes, &c., generally t bushel shall be made round, with a 

 vend their commodities as if the Act of plain and even bottom, and being nine- 

 Parliament, 5 and G Will. IV. c. 63, did | teen inches and a half from outside 

 not exist. By this statute selling by j to outside, and capable of containing 

 heaped measure is forbidden under a SOIbs. weight of water, 

 penalty of not more than 40s. for every Of Wood Fuel. — English Measure. — 

 such sale. Section 8 provides that, as Wood-fuel is assized into shids, billets, 

 some articles heretofore sold by heaped faggots, fall-wood, and cord-wood. A 

 measure are incapable of being stricken, ; shid is of fall-wood and cord-wood. 

 and may not inconveniently be sold by A shid is to be four feet long, and, 

 weight, it is enacted, that all such arti- according as they are marked and 

 tides may henceforth be sold by a notched, their proportion must be in 

 bushel-measure, corresponding in shape the girth: viz., if they have but one 

 with the bushel prescribed by the 5 ' notch they must be sixteen inches in 

 Geo. IV. c. 74, for the sale of heaped the girth ; if two notches, twenty-three 

 measure, or by any multiple or ali(juot inches; if three notches, twenty-eight 

 part thereof, filled in all parts as nearly ! inches ; if four notches, thirty-three 

 to the level of the brim as the size and inches ; and if five notches, thirty-eight 

 shape of the articles will admit; but i inches about. 



nothing herein shall prevent the sale by Billets are to be three feet long, of 

 weight of any article heretofore sold by which there should be three sorts; 

 heaped measure. The 5 Geo. IV. c. , namely, a single cask, and a cask of 

 74, thus referred to, enacts, by section ! two. The first is seven inches; the se- 

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