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THE ILLmOIS FAJRMER. 



March 



driven off by fire. This bushell of lime will 

 absorb 20 pounds of water, gradually applied 

 during several days, and will then be in a state 

 of dry powder, weighing 93 pounds; showing 

 that 18 pounds ot water have been converted into 

 a dry substance. 



To Measure a Ton of liny. — One hundred cubic 

 feet of hay, in a solid mow or stack, will weigh 

 a ton. 



So Measure Cat le hy Compute WeigJit. — Ascer- 

 taining the girth back to the shoulders, ai.d the 

 length oldDg the back, from the square of the 

 buttock, to a point even with the point of the 

 shoulder blade; say the girth is (5 feet 4 inchrs 

 and the length 5 feet 3 inches, which, multiplied 

 toget' er, gives 31 feet. Multiply thi," by 23, the 

 number of pounds allowed to the foot, between 5 

 and 7 feet girth, and the result is 713 pounds, 

 for tie number of pounds of beef in the four 

 quarters. Girths, from 7 to 9 feet, allow 31 

 pounds to the foot. Cattle must be fat and 

 equare built to hold out weight. 



To Measure Grain in Bins, multiply the length 

 and width together, and that product by the 

 heighih in cubic inches, and divide by 2,150, and 

 you hive the number of bushels. 



To Measure Corn in the Ear, find the cubic 

 inches as above, and divide by 2,815, the cubic 

 inches in a heaped bushel, and take two thirds 

 of the quotient for the number of bushels of 

 shelled corn. This is upon the rule of giving 

 three heaping half bushels of ears to make a 

 bushel of grain. £ome falls short and some 

 overruns this measure. 



Board Measures. — Boards are sold by the face 

 measure Multiply the width in inches by any 

 number of pieces of equal length, by the inches 

 of the length. Divide by 144, and the quotient 

 is the number of feet, for any th ckuess under an 

 inch. Every fourth inch increase of thickness 

 adds a fourth to tha number of feet in the face 

 measure. 



Land Measure. — Every farmer shou'd have a 

 rod measure, a light stiff pole, just Ifii feet long, 

 for measuring land. By a little practice he can 

 learn to step just a rod at tivc steps, which wi 1 

 answer very well for ordinary farm work. As- 

 cer.ain the number of rods in width and length 

 of any lot you wish to measure and multiply one 

 into the other and divide by IGO, and you have 

 the number of acres, as 160 square rods make a 

 square acre. If you wish to lay off one acre 

 square, measure 13 rods upon e'ch side. This 

 lacks one rod of being full measure. 



Government Land Measure. — A township is six 

 miles square, and contains 36 sections, 23,040 

 acres. A section, one mile square, 640 acres. 

 A quarter section, half a mile square, 160 acres 

 As this is 160 rods square, a strip one rod wide, 

 or every rod in width, is an acre. A half quarter 

 section is half a mile long, north and south, 

 almost universally, and a fourth of a mile wide, 

 80 acres A quarter-quarter section is one-fourth 

 of a mile square, 40 acres, and is the smallest 

 Bized tract, except fractions, ^ver sold by the 

 government. The price is $1,25 an acre. 



Scripture Measures — " A Sabbath Day's 

 Journey" is 1,155 yards — about thwo-thirds of a 

 mile, A Bay's Journey is 33J miles, A Heed is 

 10 feet 11^ inches. A Palm is 2 inches. A 

 Fathom is 6 feet. A Greek Foot is 12^ inches. 

 A Hebrew Foot is 1 2121000 English feet. A 

 Ctibii ia 2 feet. A Great Cubit is 11 feet. An 

 Egyptian Cubit is 21 888 1000 inches. A Span 

 is iO 944-1000 inches. 



As the superfices of all our States and counties 

 are expressed in square miles, it should be borne 

 in mind that the contents of a mile is 640 acres. 



Nxnnher of Square Yards in an Acre. — English, 

 4,840; Scotch, 6,150; Irish, 7,840; Hamburg, 

 11545; Amsterdam, 9.722; Dantzic; 6,650; 

 France, (hectare,) 11,960 ; Prussia, (morgen,) 

 3,053. 



Manure Measure. — This is generally estimated 

 by the load, which is just about as definite as the 

 phrase, "about as big as a piece of chalk." It 

 ought to be measured by the cubic yard or cord. 

 A cubic yard is 27 cubic feet, each of which con- 

 tains 1,728 cubic inches. A cubic cord is 128 

 cubic feet. As the most of farmf rs have an idea 

 in their minds of the size of a pile of wood con- 

 taining a cord, they would readily compare that 

 with the quantity of manure, if stated in cords. 

 Every cart or wagon box, before it leaves the 

 maker's shop, ought to have the cubic feet and 

 inches it will contain, indelibly marked upon it. 

 This would enable the owner to calculate the 

 amount of his load of grain, roots, earth, stone, 

 or manuie. 



The above table will be found both useful and 

 curious. We cut it from some exchange several 

 years since, and now transfer ii from our scrap- 

 book. Ed. 



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— A queer-looking customer inserted his head 

 into an auction store, and, looking gravely at 

 the knight of the hammer, "oan I bid, sir ?" 

 "Certainly," replied the auctioneer, "you can 

 bid." "Well, then," said the wag, walking oflF, 

 "I bid you, good night." 



— A young Bull, sojourning at one of our ho- 

 tels, was overheard, in conversation, yesterday, 

 to say, with reference to Lowell's last pungent 

 "paper" in the Atlantic Monthly. "It is vewy 

 diswespectful to Hengland, and vewy hillitewat ; 

 so much so, that it is positively quite hidle to 

 hattempt a pewusal." 



— Wordsworth cautions a studious friend 

 against " growing double, " but the girls think 

 it is the best thing a nice young man can do. 



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— "Sam, do you know why that stick of wood 

 you're sawing is like the elephant that was 

 here last week ?" 



"I'll be banged if I can see any resemblance. 

 Why is it, Bill ?" 



"Because you saw it, to be sure !" 



