The following is a very valuable housewife's table, by which persons, not having scales and weights at hand, may readily measure the articles wanted to form a recipe without the trouble of weighing, allowance to be made for extraordinary dryness or moisture of the article weighed or measured:

Twenty-four large tablespoonsful are one pint.

Seven large tablespoonsful are one gill.

Four large tablespoonsful are half a gill.

Two gills are half a pint.

Two pints are one quart.

Four quarts are one gallon.

A common sized tumbler holds half a pint.

A common sized wineglass is half a gill.

A claret wineglass is one gill.

A tablespoonful is half an ounce.

Forty drops are equal to one teaspoonful.

Four teaspoonsful are equal to one tablespoonful.

Two teaspoonsful are equal to one dessert-spoonful.

Twelve tablespoonsful are half a pint.

One pint liquid is one pound.

Four cups of flour - one quart or one pound.

Three cups of corn meal - one pound.

One cup of butter - half pound.

One pint of butter - one pound.

One tablespoonful of butter - one ounce.

One solid pint chopped meat - one pound.

Two cups granulated sugar - one pound.

One pint granulated sugar - one pound.

One pint brown sugar - thirteen ounces.

Wheat flour - one pound is one quart.

Indian meal - one pound two ounces are one quart.

Butter - when soft, one pound is one pint.

Lard - one pound is one pint.

Loaf sugar - broken, one pound is one quart.

White sugar - powdered, one pound one ounce are one quart.

Best brown sugar - one pound two ounces are one quart.

Ten eggs are one pound.

Flour - eight quarts are one peck.

Flour - four pecks are one bushel.