207 



A cord of stone, 3 bushels of lime and a cubic yard of sand, Food for 

 will lay 100 cubic feet of wall. Plants 



Five courses of brick will lay one foot in height on a chimney; 

 10 bricks in a course will make a flue 4 inches wide and 12 inches 

 long, and 8 bricks in a course will make a flue 8 inches wide and 

 16 inches long. 



Cement 1 bushel and sand 2 bushels will cover 3^ square 

 yards 1 inch thick, 4^ square yards % inch thick, and §% square 

 yards Yi inch thick. One bushel cement and 1 of sand will cover 

 %Yi square yards 1 inch thick, 3 square yards % inch thick, and 

 4/4 square yards Yi inch thick. 



Weight of a Cubic Foot of Earth, Stone, Metal, Etc. 



Article. Pounds. 



Alcohol 49 



Ash wood 53 



Bay wood 51 



Brass, gun metal 543 



Blood 66 



Brick, common 102 



Cork 15 



Cedar 35 



Copper, cast 547 



Clay 120 



Coal, Lehigh 56 



Coal, Lackawanna 50 



Cider 64 



Chestnut 38 



Earth, loose 94 



Glass, window 165 



Gold 1,203^ 



Hickory, shell bark 43 



Hay, bale 9 



Hay, pressed 25 



Honey 90 



Iron, cast 450 



Iron, plates 481 



Iron, wrought bars 486 



Ice _ 57^ 



Lignum Vitse wood 83 



Logwood 57 



Lead, cast 709 



Article. Pounds. 



Milk 64 



Maple 47 



Mortar 110 



Mud 102 



Marble, Vermont 165 



Mahogany 66 



Oak, Canadian 54 



Oak, live, seasoned 67 



Oak, white, dry 54 



Oil, linseed 59 



Pine, yellow 34 



Pine, white 34 



Pine, red 37 



Pine, well seasoned 30 



Silver 625% 



Steel, plates 487% 



Steel, soft 489 



Stone, common, about.. 158 



Sand, wet, about. 128 



Spruce 31 



Tin 455 



Tar 63 



Vinegar 67 



Water, salt 64 



Water, rain 62 



Willow 36 



Zinc, cast 428 



What a Deed to a Farm in Many States Includes 



Every one knows it conveys all the fences standing on the 

 farm, but all might not think it also included the fencing-stuff, 

 posts, rails, etc., which had once been used in the fence, but had 

 been taken down and piled up for future use again in the same 



