TABLES OF MEASURES AND WEIGHTS, 



OSED BY DIFFERENT AUTHORS QUOTED IN THIS WORK. 



Burger and Thaer use the Austrian measures. Veit uses the Bavarian measures, 

 and ScHWKKTz the French. In the reductions, in the following sections, fractions 

 have Kometinies been disregarded 



AUSTRIAN. 



LONG MEASURE. 



1 foot = 12 inches = 12 lines each, and = 1.037 English feet 



1 k I after is about 6 feet. 



1 mile is about 4^ miles, English. 



SQUARE MEASURE. 



1 yoke [Joch] = 1600 square klafters, = 1.422 English acres. 

 1 square klafter is about 5 square yards. 



DRY MEASURE. 



1 metzen = 16 maessl, = 0.211 of an English Quarter of 8 bushels, or 1.69 of 



an English bushel, or about 54 quarts. 

 1 maeesl = about 3 quarts. 



The metzen is also sometimes divided into 8ths, or 2 msessl. 



LIQUID MEASURE. 



1 wine eimer = 40 maas : equal to about 12^ English gallons. 

 1 beer " = 42h " " « 13 " ' " 



I maas = 0.311 gallons, =2^ pints. 



WEIGHT. 



1 ceiUner; or 100 lbs., = 123.4 lbs. English. 

 I lb. contains 32 loths, about ^ an oz. each. 



B A VA R I A N 



LONG MEASURE. 



1 foot = 12 inches of 12 lines each, = 0.957 English feet. 

 1 mile, about 4k miles English. 



SQUARE MEASURE. 



1 morgen = 400 quadrat ruthen, or square rods, or 40,000 square feet, = 0.842, 

 or about 5-6 of an English acre. 



DRY MEASURE. 



1 schaeffel =-6 metzen = 4 quarters = 4 massl = 6.223 English bushels. 



1 metzen = 1.037 English bushels. 



1 quarter = about 8 quarts, or a peck, English. 



1 maessl = about 2 quarts, English. 



LIQUID MEASURE. 



1 eimer = 60 or 64 maas = about 14 or 15 gallons, English 

 1 maas = 0.235 gallon, or nearly 2 pints, English. 



WEIGHT. 



1 centner, or 100 lbs. = 123.4 lbs. English. 



I lb. = 32 loths. 



1 loth = about .} oz. English. 



MONEY. 



The German florin = 60 kreutzers, ia reckoned at about 48 cents. 1 kreutzer, about 

 I of a cent 1 groschen, about 2 cents. 



