1861. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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For Vie New England Farmer. 

 TABLE OF CUBIC MEASURES. 



Measurements of cubic contents are usually 

 made in feet or in inches, and if the volume is 

 wanted in any other measure, such as yards, 

 perches, bushels or gallons, the necessary reduc- 

 tion is made from the result of the first measure- 

 ment. 



For the purpose of lessening the labor of such 

 reductions, I have constructed the following ta- 

 bles, which many readers of the Farmer will, 

 without doubt, find very useful, as they give in a 

 convenient form the relations which several of 

 our units of measure bear to others. 



Its use is as follows : Suppose you wish to 

 find the number of yards in a cord, — the word 

 "Cord" is found at the top of the table ; under 

 that, and opposite the word "Yard," will be found 

 the number of yards in a cord, M'hich is about four 

 and three-quarters. If the number of feet con- 



tained in a bushel is wanted, then the word 

 "Bushel" will be found at the top, and "Foot" at 

 the side ; under one, and opposite the other, will 

 be found the number required, which is about one 

 foot and a quarter. Opposite "Bushel" and un- 

 der "Foot," you find that a foot is about eight- 

 tenths of a bushel ; now suppose a bin for hold- 

 ing grain to measure 12 feet long, 8 feet wide 

 and 5 feet deep, then 12X8X5=480 feet, 

 multiply by .8 



and the result 384.0 

 is the number of bushels, very nearly. The work 

 can be more accurately done by using the full 

 decimal given in the table. 

 It will also be seen by the table that there are 



216 feet in a square. 

 128 " " cord. 



27 " " yard. 



243 " " perch. 

 2150.42 inches in a bushel. 



1728 inches in a foot. 

 537.6 " " peck. 

 268.8 " " gallon. 

 67.2 " " quart. 

 &c. &c. 



TABLE No. 1 



Square. Cord. Yard. Perch. Bushel. Foot. Peck. Gallon. Quart. Inch. 



The square is used by contractors for moving 

 earth, and is a cube measuring 6 feet each way, 

 and containing 8 cubic yards. The superficial 

 square is used in measuring the area of the vari- 

 ous kinds of roofing ; it is a square surface meas- 

 uring 10 feet each way, containing 100 square 

 feet. It is said that one thousand shingles will 

 lay a square, but as they are usually put on, they 

 will lay a few feet more than a square. The yard 

 used in areas is a suface measuring three feet 

 each way, containing nine square feet. 



measure, and contains 268.8 cubic inches. The 

 standard gallon of liquid measure contains 231 

 cubic inches. The old Ale gallon contains 282 

 cubic inches. The Imperial (English) gallon con- 

 tains 277.274 cubic inches, A gallon (231 

 inches) of distilled water weighs 8.3389 pounds, 

 Avoirdupois. The standard Avoirdupois pound 

 is equal in weight to 27,7015 cubic inches of dis- 

 tilled water, A cubic foot of water weighs about 

 62.38 pounds. 



The following table shows the relations of the 

 cubic contents of each kind of gallon to the oth- 



The perch is used by masons in laying stone- 

 work — supposing the wall to be a foot and a | ers, and also to a cubic foot and a cubic inch 

 half thick, then a rod in 

 length of the wall one foot 

 high will contain one perch, 

 or 245 cubic feet. The 

 superficial perch is a square 

 surface measuring sixteen 

 and a half feet each way, 

 containing two hundred 

 and seventy-two and one- 

 quarter feet. An acre con- 

 tains one hundred and 

 sixty perches. 



The bushel is the old 

 Winchester bushel of Eng- 

 land, which is used in the United States as a 

 standard for dry measure ; the Imperial Bushel, 

 which is the present English standard, contains 

 2218.182 cubic inches 



The gallo7i here given is the standard for dry 



The complaint is often made against such ta- 

 bles as these for common use, that the decimal 

 notation is not well understood. There is a con- 

 stant use of this notation in dollars and cents, as 

 $374.63, in which ,03 is a decimal, called sixty- 



