WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. 



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pint of standard wash. The antidote is an emetic followed by oil and lime water, soap 

 suds or milk ; an emetic is made by mixing mustard flourlone tablespoonful, common 

 salt one teaspoonf ul, and water ten to twelve ounces. 



WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. 



make 1 ounce (oz.) =* 2| tolas. 



1 pound (Ib.) -= 8 chittacks. 



1 quarter (qr.) = 14 seers. 



1 hundredweight (cwt.) 1 maund 14 seers. 



1 ton = 27 maunds. 



1 pint (pt.) ^ 10 chittacks. 



1 quart (qt.) = 1 seer 4 chittacks. 



1 gallon (gal.) = 5 seers. 



16 dram 



16 ounces . 



28 pounds . 



4 quarters (112 Ibs.) 



20 hundredweight 



4 gills 



2 pints . 



4 quarts . 



1 fluid ounce weighs 1 oz. 



1 pint (20 fl. ounces) of water weighs 1 Ibs. 



1 ( ) of kerosene weighs 13 oz. 



1 Ib. of kerosene measures 1 1 pint. 



1 pint of slaked lime weighs 13 14 oz. 



1 pint of lead arseniate powder weighs 28 oz. 



1 gramme 

 1 kilogramme 

 1 ounce 

 1 pound 

 1 litre 



15-432 graius. 



35 oz. 120 grains. 

 = 28-35 gramme. 



=3 453-58 



= 35 i fl. oz. 



TREATING COTTON SEED. 



For five seers of seed, mix two handfals of clay, one of cowdung and enough 

 water to make a paste. Rub the seeds in this mixture, letting them fall through the 

 fingers as they get covered. Dry in the shade. To test them, throw the seeds into 

 water, when all that float may be removed as bad. 



SURFACE CATERPILLAR BAIT. 



For five acres, mix one maund (40 seers) of bhusa with six gallons (30 seers) of 

 water in which one seer of white arsenic (Sambul) and two seers of gur or jaggery 

 have been dissolved. This makes a paste which is put down over the field in small 

 heaps about two yards apart. 



