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The imperial bushel established by the Weights and Measures Act 1824 described the bushel as the volume of 80 avoirdupois pounds of distilled water in air at 62 °F (17 °C) [citation needed] or 8 imperial gallons. [1] This is the bushel in some use in the United Kingdom. Thus, there is no distinction between liquid and dry measure in the ...
[c] In the British Empire, the Winchester bushel was replaced with an imperial bushel of eight imperial gallons, with the subdivisions of the bushel being maintained. As with US dry measures, the imperial system divides the bushel into 32 quarts or 64 pints: these imperial measures are 3.21% larger than their US dry counterparts.
The 4-bushel bag was the standard international shipping unit for grain, [1] [2] [3] and the coomb was in common use in farming in Norfolk and Suffolk until well after the end of World War II, in fact for as long as grain was handled in sacks, a practice which ended with the introduction of combine harvesters which had bulk grain tanks.
In agricultural practice, a bushel is a fixed volume of 2,150.42 cubic inches (35.2391 liters). The mass of grain will therefore vary according to density. Some nominal weight examples are: [26] [27] 1 bushel (corn) = 56 lb (25.4012 kg) 1 bushel (wheat) = 60 lb (27.2155 kg) 1 bushel (barley) = 48 lb (21.7724 kg)
Print/export Download as PDF; ... The Weights and Measures Act ... bushel: boisseau: 8 gal 36.36872 L 9.608 US fl gal 8.256 US dry gal
The bushel was not fully standardized and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange still (May 2013) uses different bushels for different commodities—a bushel of corn being 56 lb, a bushel of oats 38 lb and a bushel of soybeans 60 lb and a bushel of red winter wheat (both hard and soft) also 60 lb. Other commodities at the exchange are reckoned in ...
The Weight of Water from Fourmilab Switzerland; Canadian Weights and Measures Act ( R.S., 1985, c. W-6 ) Australian National Measurement Regulations 1999; UK Weights and Measures Act 1985; U.S. NIST Guide to SI Units metric conversions → see Appendix B.9; U.S. NIST Household Weights and Measures Chart Abbreviated or rounded figures.
22 — Size of Winchester bushel "every round bushel with a plain and even bottom being 18 + 1 ⁄ 2 ″ wide throughout and 8″ deep" (i.e. a dry measure of 2150 in 3 per gallon). 1706 6 Ann. c. 11 — Act of Union decreed the weights and measures of England to be applied in Scotland, whose burgs (towns) were to take charge of the duplicates ...