6128. To Measure Corn in the Crib

6128.    To Measure Corn in the Crib. Corn is generally put up in cribs made of rails, but the rule will apply to a crib of any size or kind. Two cubic feet of good, sound, dry corn in the ear, will make a bushel of shelled corn. To get, then, the quantity of shelled corn in a crib of corn in the ear, measure the length, breadth, and height of the crib, inside of the rail; multiply the length by the breadth, and the product by the height; then divide the result by 2, and you have the number of bushels of shelled corn in the crib. In measuring the height, of course the height of the corn is intended. And there will be found to be a difference in measuring corn in this mode between fall and spring, because it shrinks very much in the winter and spring, and settles down.

6129. Percentage of Pork to Live Weight

6129. Percentage of Pork to Live Weight. The following table shows the proportion of pork to live weight of fat swine:

6130. Measures for Housekeepers

6130. Measures for Housekeepers.

Wheat flour......... 1 pound          is 1 quart.

Indian meal........ 1 " 2 oz. " 1 "

Butter when soft.... 1 "             "1 "

Loaf sugar, broken.. 1 "              " 1 "

White sugar, powd.. 1 " 1 oz. "1 " Best brown sugar... 1 " 2 oz. "1 "

Eggs...............10 eggs are 1 pound.

Flour............... 8 quarts" 1 peck.

Flour...............4 pecks " 1 bushel.

16 large table-spoonfuls are............£ pint.

8 large table-spoonfuls are.............1 gill.

4 large table-spoonfuls are............ 1/2 gill.

2 gills are...........................£ pint.

2 pints are.........................1 quart.

4 quarts are.......................1 gallon.

A common sized tumbler holds........1/2 pint.

A common sized wine-glass............£ gill.

25 drops are equal to.........1 tea-spoonful.