TABLE XXVI. 



THIS TABLE SHOWS THE SOLID OR CUBICAL CONTENT OF STACKS OF 

 A SQUARE OR AN OBLONG FORM, IN SOLID YARDS AND FEET, FROM 

 \ FOOT TO 60 FEET IN LENGTH, \ FOOT TO 2 1 FEET IN BREADTH, 

 AND THE SAME IN HEIGHT. 



THE breadths are found on the tops of the pages, the lengths 

 in the left-hand columns, and the heights along the tops of the 

 other columns; the content, at a given breadth and height, is 

 found opposite any given length, in the column under the given 

 height. 



The content of any dimension, not found in the Table, may 

 be had by adding together the contents of two dimensions, either 

 in length, breadth, or height; or, it may sometimes be more 

 convenient to take the half of the content of double the required 

 dimension. The Table may also be extended to any required 

 length, by adding together the contents of two or more dimen- 

 sions. 



NOTE. As stated in the introduction to Table XXV. (which 

 see), the weight of hay stacks, &c., per cubic yard, varies so 

 much, from size, age, and quality, that it was considered most 

 advisable to give, first, Tables showing the cubical content of 

 stacks in solid yards and feet, as is done in this Table, and. 

 Table XXV., and then to give a separate Table, showing the 

 number of stones in any number of cubic yards, ranging from 

 4 to 20 stones per cubic yard, as is done in Table XXVII. 



To take the dimensions of a 

 stack of the form adjoining: 

 Measure the breadth and length 

 of the stack midway between 

 the bottom of the stack and the 

 eaves, a, 6, d, for the mean 

 breadth and length ; then mea- 

 sure the perpendicular height, 

 from the bottom of the stack to 

 the eaves, at a or b, to which 

 add one-half of the perpendicular 

 height, from a to the top of the dotted line on a level with c y the 

 crown of the ridge of the stack, for the mean height. 



Stacks being usually wider at the eaves than the bottom, the 

 breadth there, of course, exceeds the average width of the stack. 



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