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inches high. The flat carrier lettuce-box is seven and one-half 

 inches by eighteen inches by twenty-two inches. 



The cabbage crate which comes from Norfolk is eleven and 

 one-half inches by eighteen inches on the heads and is thirty-six 

 inches long, with a partition in the middle. 



The three-peck basket which is used early i;i the season for 

 shipping peas, beans, cucumbers, and crookneck squashes is 

 twenty inches high, fourteen inches inside measure at the top, 

 and eight and one-half inches inside measure at the bottom. 



The flat onion crate with partition in the center has sixteen- 

 inch by seven-inch heads, and is twenty-four inches long. 



WEIGHTS OF EVERYDAY THINGS 



A barrel of flour w^eighs one hundred and ninety-six pounds. 



A barrel of salt weighs two hundred and eighty pounds. 



A barrel of beef weighs two hundred pounds. 



A barrel of pork weighs two hundred pounds. 



A barrel of fish weighs two hundred pounds. 



A keg of powder equals twenty-five pounds. 



A stone of lead or iron equals fourteen pounds. 



A pig of lead or iron equals twenty-one and one-half stone. 



Anthracite coal broken — cubic foot averages, fifty-four 

 pounds. 



A ton loose occupies forty to forty-three cubic feet. 



Bituminous coal broken — cubic foot averages, forty-nine 

 pounds. 



A ton loose occupies forty to forty-eight cubic feet. 



Cement (hydraulic) Rosendale, weight, p(M' bushel, seventy 

 pounds. 



Cement (hydraulic) Louisville, weight per l)ushel, sixty-two 

 pounds. 



Cement (hydraulic) Portland, weight per bushel, ninety-six 

 pounds. 



Gypsum, ground, weight per bushel, seventy pounds. 



Lime, loose, weight per bushel, seventy pounds. 



Lime, well shaken, weight per bushel, eighty pounds. 



Sand, at ninety-eight pounds per cubic foot, per bushel, one 

 hundred and twenty-two and one-half pounds. 



18.29 bushels equals a ton ; 1.181 tons a cubic yard. 



