1826.] 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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NEW BRITISH WEIGHTS AND MEAS- 

 URES. 



As (he new weights and measures come into 

 nse on the 1st ot'Jiinuary, it is of importance to 

 malie the |<nl>lic f;imilinr with the nature of the 

 changes iviiich will then be necessary. 



1. The standaril inch, foot, yard, acre, and 

 mile, remain the same as at [irisent. 



2. The pounii, ounce, and pennyweight troy, 

 and the pound, onnce, and dram avoirdnpois, 

 remain also the same as at present. The pound 

 Irov is declared to he the unit fiom which all 



iij) to the form of a cone, such rone to lie of the 

 heigh! of at lfa«t six iiiclie?, and the oolvide of 

 the hnshel to he tlie extremity of the ba'^e of 



SEN ATE.-MA!ic:i .i. ;v.i' ).:.>.,,: ,.„,-,) die 



Ciimmiltce oJ ComintTce. made f* rcpoit Litt\r:r«(: (o cer- 



siich cone, and ihat three bushels shall he a sack, ^ tain meiiiorialisls of n-.iltin-iO.c, praying for ;hc- alolitinn 

 and twelve such sacks shall be a chaldron." 



It is further provided by the Act of 6 Geo. IV. 

 cap. 12, "that all measures shall he made cylin- 

 drical, and the diameter of such measure sh.ill 

 be. at the least, double the depth thereof, and 

 the height of llie cone or heap shall be equal to 

 3-4lhs of the depth of the measure, the outside 

 I of the measure being ihe extremitv or base of 



others are to be derived. It contains 5,760 such cone." 



grains; and the ounce troy contains 4Q0 grains. I '' 's not obligatory on persons to hoy and sell 



The pound avoirdupois contains 7.000 troy by those measures ; they may use the old me; 



grains, and the ounce avoirdupois 437J. Thus 

 we have still two different pound, and two dif- 

 ferent ounce weights! As a means of restoring 

 the weights if they should be lost, Ihe cubic inch 

 of distilled water is declared to be equal in 

 weight to 2.52.458 grains — the barometer being 

 at 30 inches, and the thermometer at tJ2 deg. 



ures ; but when this is done, the ratio vvh'ch 



of th.' adctilional duties on British Colonial vcssvl-. 



APRIL J. — The joint nsoliitipn to proliil.it Uu' i-iti- 

 tion of any ptMEon as Prtsider.t of tlie (Jniled States fcr 

 more than cijht years, passed in tho afiirniative, Yeas 

 32, Nays 7. 



.^TRIL 'I. — Tho Committee on finance was authoriz- 

 ed to inquire into the expediency of providing for tlis 

 repeal of the du!y on salt. 



APRIL ."i. — A bill passed to lie engrcssed for remov- 

 ing obstructions in the river Pavaiiiiah, occasioned by 

 certaiu hulks sunk therein during the revolutionary 

 war. 



APRIL 6. — Mr Benton introduced a bill (o author- 

 ize the President to sell certain lead btlor2:in2r to the 



Ihe measures used to bear to the new stan.lwd , ^''"^'^ ^'ates, in ^Missouri ; and stated that it would 



cost nearly as much as it is worth to transport it to any 

 of Ihe arsenals of the U. fc". — A bill for deepening the 

 harbour of Mobile, passed to be engrossed. It appro- 

 priates $10.00U for the purpose. 



HOUSE. .MARCH 3!.— Mr Fartiett of X. H. 

 otfired a resolution dirertiug the .Naval Committee to 



measures must be specified, otherwise the con- 

 i tract of agreement is null and void. This will 

 render it necessary to reler (o the netv meas- 

 ures in all written bargains. All bargains, made 

 without a special reference to some other meas- 

 3. The sole difference between the new\vs- j ure are held to be made according to the new ^ ^pport on Hie expediency of" discouiinuiug the Navy 

 lem and the old lies in the gallon and the meas- 1 measure. I y^rd at Philadel])hia, on the ground that the same has 



ures deduced from it. The new or imperial t The existing weights and measures may be '; been subjected to taxation under the state of Penn. 

 wallon is declared to contain ten pounds avoir- ' "sed if marked", so as to show the proportion ' "I'ch was laid on the table.— Communications tr^re 



dupois of distilled water-the temperature an.l ' Hi'')' have to the standard measures and weights, ^ ^"i^^'f ['•.r 'h^ Ti"'^'"''^, ^''si'^leL^n^'nT HiTf '^^ 



r . ' . ■ ■ i 1 . ■ .1 • All ■ 1 . I , One of which was, the annual statement ol the torn- 



pressure being as above. Hence we find that hut not otherwise. All weights and measures I ,^^,.^^^^^ jj^^.^^,.„„ ^f,^^ y„ij,^ Statcs.-Another, 



it contains 277:}, or, more correctly, 277.27 cu-i made after the 1st ot January, 1826, aie to he i ;,„ ^hstract of the official emoluni'nts and expenditures 



hie inches. Now the present wine gallon con- 1 conlormable to l!ie new standard. — London 



fains 2.U, and Ihe present ale gallon 232 cubic Morning Chronicle, /voxl 16, 182.5. 



inches. 



BOILING MILK. 

 Perhaps it is not so generally known as it 



ought to be that the boiling of milk before it is 



It I'ollows that the new imperial gallon is to 

 the old wine gallon as 6 to 5, and to the old ale 

 gallon as 47 to 48, neglecting very miiuile frac- 

 tions. ! *el away for the cream to rise, will completely 



Therefore, to convert wine gallons into im- 1 '''vest it, and of course the hulter made Ihere- 

 perial gallons, deduct one sixth ; to convert im- 1 'rom, of the very unpleasant flavor arising from 

 perial gallons into wine gallons add one fifth. (ih*? cows hiv.og fed upon garlicky pastures — ^ 



To convert ale gallons into imperial gallons, ' 'he boiling ought to be continueil for at least t I-oiyin^ „„ congress. This parsed in the aflirmaiive, 

 add l-47th part; to convert imperial gallons, half an hour — this dairy secret if it be one, 1 I Yeas 138, Nays 52. — The question was then taken on 

 into ale gallons, deduct l-48lh part. j have learned from a female friend, vvlio has 1 the second resolution, viz. 



rrii • . 4 .111 111, liBon in tho bul.il nf ovQltino- boi-aolf" nf ii (.>r ' Resolrc'd. That 3 Uniform sTstem of voting by Dis- 



The new pint and quart lieing declared to he oeen in ine natiit oi availing tiersoii oi it tor ■' " 



for Ul-?5, of officers of the customs.— A third, a report 

 in relation to the ability and necessity of Docks, in the 

 preservation and repair of ships of war. — Two Messages 

 were received from Ihe President; one transmitting in- 

 formation on the subject of the commercial relations 

 between the United Slates and Colombia. 



APRIL 1 Aft-r much altercation the question was 



taken on the folowiiig resol^ition. viz. 



Resolved. That for th/ purpose of electing the Pres- 

 ident and Vice Pttsidcnt of Ihe United Stales, the Con- 

 stitution oi)gh+ to be" amended in such manner as will 

 prevent the election of the aforesaid officers from de- 



some years [lasl. — Jm. Farmer. 



:0 THE FARMERS. 



respectively the 8th and 4th part of the new 

 gallon, bear Ihe same proportion to Ihe old pint 

 and quart as the new gallon does to the old gal- 

 lon. 



Two gallons are declared to be a peck, and 'eed well, and add four quarts of slacked lime 



eight gallons a bushel, as at present. But the '" each bushel— stir it well, and let it stand in 



proportions here are not the same as in Ihe case 'his sitnation three days. The gentleman who 



of the pint and quart, because the old gallon for communicated the above, says he has practised 



dry measure is neither the wine nor the ale gal- it on all kinds of wheat, and different kinds of 



Ion, bul a gallon of 268.8 cubic inches. The soil for ten years, and has never failed of com- 



tiict ought tobe established in all the f-t:-ites, the num- 



imperiat peck and bushel are liierefore to the 

 old Winchester peck and bushel as 263.8 to 

 277.27. Hence to convert Winchester bushels 

 into imperial bushels, deduct I-33d part ; an<l In 

 convert imperial into Winchester add one 32d 

 part. This is sufficiently near for practical pur- 

 poses ; the sum to he added is correctly 131.- 

 73. The old Winchester bushel contains 2150 ■ 

 42 cubic inches; the new contains 2218 16. 

 The new or imperial quarter has the same ra- 

 tio to the old quarter, as the cew bushel has to 

 the old bushel. 



" The standard measure of capacity for coal«, 

 cnlni, lime, fish, potatoes, or fruit, and all other 

 goods and things commonly sold by heap meas- 

 ure, shall be the aforesaid bushel, containing 80 

 jiounds avoirdu|)ois of water, the same beinar 

 made round, with a plain and even bottom, and 

 being 19 inches and a half from outside to out 



ber of Districts in each stnte to equal tbe number of 



Senators and Representatives to which such state may 



be entitled in Congress, and each District having one 



To prevent wheat from smutting, wash the vote. This day was principally occupied in debates 



relating to the Panama Mission, and amendments of Ihe 

 constilution, but no decision was obtained on ei'her 

 subject. 



A London paper, speaking of the probable business 

 of the Uul;e of Wellington, who set out on his mission 

 to Petersburg on the Cth of February, says : — We can 

 state, on authority on which we ourselves place the 

 greatest reliance, that urgent political negotiation, and 

 not Court etiquette, is the chief object of his Grace's 

 journey. The strong feeling of the Russian army in 

 favour of their co-religionists, which was restrained by 



plete success. 



In Ihe Patent Ofiice of ihe United Slates at 

 Washington there is a great collection of models 

 of useful inventions. Three hundred patents 1 the late Emperor, cannot so easily be repressed by his 



were issued during the last year, and already 

 one hundred since the commencement of the 

 present. 



Literature in Persia. — Prince Abas Mirza has 

 given permission to Mr Wolf, an Englishman, to 

 open a school of Belles Letlres, in the city of 

 Tauris. 



Sqon after Mr Foote had his house at North- 

 end, Fulham, filled up, a friend came to see him 

 Sam, having carried him through the bouse, 

 asked how he liked it ; he answered, that it wis 

 very neat, and handsomely furnished ; but at the 

 same time, that there was not a room 'fit to 



, . , , .iSwins a cat in.' Sir, says Foote, I did not build 



Sid9, the goods m such measure to be heaped i^, iJ^^^i^g <.„,j i„, 



successor ; artd Nicholas, ascribing the late mutiny 

 and bloodshed at Petersburg to this feeling, has de- 

 clared to his allies, that the only means of escaping 

 danjer.lo his person and government, is to interlere in 

 favor of the Greeks. Unless he can act in concert 

 with his allies, he must act single-handed in this im- 

 portant enterprise, and in that case ambition might 

 not stop when humanity was satisfied. To prevent, 

 therefore, the general war to vhich the march of Russ- 

 ian troops against Turkey might lead, the I'uke of 

 Wellington is empowered to offer onr co operation for 

 effertinar the immediate and complete independence 

 of Gr-ece. 



Lead Pipe for Aqueducts. S,-c. 

 LINCOLN FEARING & Co. at No 110 State-street, 

 have for sale, all sizes of Lead Pipe from lilto2inch s, 

 warranted equal to any impo-ted or mar.tifactured in 

 this country — Contracts lor any quantity made and 

 furnishsd at short notice. April 14, 8t. 



