3213. Board Measure

Boards are sold by superficial measure, at so much per foot of one inch or less in thickness, adding one fourth to the price for each quarter-inch thickness over an inch.

3214. Grain Measure In Bulk

Multiply the width and length of the pile together, and that product by the height, and divide by 2,150, and you have the contents in bushels.

If you wish the contents of a pile of ears of corn, or roots in heaped bushels, ascertain, the cubic inches and divide by 2.818.

3215. A Tun Weight

In this city, a tun is 2,000 lbs. In most places, a tun of hay, etc, is 2,240 lbs., and in some places that foolish fashion still prevails of weighing all bulky articles sold by the tun, by the "long weight," or tare of 12 lbs. per cwt.

3216. A tun of round timber is 40 feet; of square timber, 54 cubic feet.

3217. "A quarter" of corn or other grain sold by the bushel, is eigne

Imperial bushels, or a quarter of a tun.

3218. A Tux of liquid measure is 252 gallons.

3219. Butter is gold avoirdupois weight, which compares with Troy weight as 144 to 175; the Troy pound being that much the lightest. But 175 Troy ounces equal 192 of avoir-dupois.

3220. A firkin of butter is 56 lbs: a tub of butter is 84 lbs.

3221. The Kilogramme of France is 1,000 grammes; and equal to two lbs. 2 oz. 4 grs. avoirdupois.

3222. A Bale of Cotton, in Egypt, is 90 lbs; in America, a commercial bale is 400 lba.; though put up to vary from 280 to 720 indifferent localities.

A bale or bag of Sea Island cotton is 300 lbs.

3223. Wool. In England, wool is sold by the sack or boll, of 22 stone, which, at 14 lbs. the stone, is 308 lbs.

3224. A pack of wool is 17 stone, 2 lbs., which is rated as a pack load for a horse. It is 240 lbs. A tod of wool is 2 stone of 14 lbs. A wey of wool is 6 1/2 tods. Two weys, a sack. A clove of wool is half a stone.

3225. The Stone Weight, so often spoken of in English measures, is 14 lbs. when weighing wool, feathers, hay, etc., but a stone of beef, fish, butter, cheese, etc, is only 8 lbs.

3226. Hay. In England, a truss, when new, is 60 lbs., or 56 lbs. of old hay. A truss of straw, 40 lbs. A load of hay is 36 trusses.

In this country, a load is just what it may happen to weigh; and a tun of hay is either 2,000 lbs. or 2,240, according to the custom of the locality, A bale of hay is generally considered about 300 lbs., but there is no regularity in the weight. A cube of a solid mow, 10 feet square, will weigh a tun.

3227. A Last is an English measure of various articles.

A last of soap, ashes, herrings, and gome similar things, is 2 barrels. A last of corn is 10 quarters. A last of gunpowder, 24 barrels. 17*

A last of flax or feathers, 1,700 lbs. A last of wool, 12 sacks.

3228. A Scotch Pint contains 105 cubic inches, and is equal to 4 English pints. 214 Scotch pint is is a farlot of wheat.

3229. Coal. A chaldron is 58 3/8 cubic feet, or by measure, 36 heaped bushels. A heaped bushel of anthracite coal weighs 80 lbs., making 2,880 lbs. to a chaldron.

3230. Wood. A cord of wood is 128 solid feet, in this country and England. In France it is 576 feet. We cord wood 4 feet long, in piles 4 feet by 8.

In New-Orleans, wood is retailed by the pound, and to a limited extent here. It is also sold by the barrel. A load of wood in New-York is 42 2/3 cubic feet, or one-third of a cord.

Wood is sold in England by the stack, skid, quintal, billet, and bundle.

3231. A Stack is 108 solid feet, and usually piled 12 feet long, 3 feet high, and 3 feet wide.

A Quintal of wood is 100 lbs.

3232. A Skid is a round bundle of sticks, 4 feet long. A one-notch skid girts 16 inches. A two-notch skid 23 inches. A three-notch skid 28 inches. A four-notch skid 33 inches. A five-notch 6kid 38 inches.

A Billet of wood is a bundle of sticks 3 feet long, and girts 7, 10 or 14 inches, and these bundles sell by the score or hundred. A spore is 20, and comes from the count by tally, or marks.

Faggots of Wood are bundles of brush 3 feet long, 2 feet round. A load of faggots is 50 bundles.

All wood should be sold by the pound.