Food for Plants. 



175 



Weight of a Cubic Foot of 



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, Lackawanna 50 



Coal, Lehio-h 56 



Cider 64 



Chestnut 38 



Earth, loose 94 



Glass, window 165 



Gold 1,203% 



Hiekor}', shell bark 43 



Hay, bale 9 



Hay, pressed 25 



Honey 90 



Ii-on, cast 450 



Iron, plates 481 



Iron, -svrouo-ht bars 486 



Ice r 571/2 



Lignum Vit.T wood 83 



TjOgwood 57 



Lead, cast 709 



Earth, Stone, Metal, Etc. 



Article Pounds 



Milk 64 



Maple 47 



Mortar HO 



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 62534 



Steel, plates 48734 



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 fenc- 

 ing-stuff, post 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 place. But new fencing material, 

 just bought, and never attached to the soil, would not 

 pass. So piles of hop poles stored away, if once used on 

 the land and intended to be again so used, have been con- 

 sidered a part of it, but loose boards or scaffold poles 

 merely laid across the beams of the barn, and never fast- 

 ened to it, would not be, and the seller of the farm might 

 take them away. Standing trees, of course, also pass as 

 part of the land; so do trees blown down or cut down, 

 and still left in the wood where they fell, but not if cut 



