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This measure is applied to all Dry Goods, as Corn, Fruit, Salt, Coals, &c. A Winchester Bushel is 18 inches in diameter, and 8 inches deep. The standard Gallon Dry Measure contains 268 inches.

2 Pints
4 Quarts

36 Gallons

54 Gallons

2 Hogsheads 2 Butts

ALE AND BEER MEASURE.

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NOTE. By a law of Massachusetts, the barrel for Cider and Beer shall contain 32 Gallons. The Ale Gallon contains 282 cubic or solid inches.

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NOTE. The Wine Gallon contains 231 cubic inches. We have no statute specifying how many gallons a hogshead, tierce, or pipe, shall contain.

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NOTE. The true solar year is the time measured from the sun's leaving either equinox or solstice, to its return to the same again. A periodical year is the time the earth revolves round the sun, and is 365d. 6h. 9m. 14 sec. and is often called the Sidereal year. The civil year is that, which is in common use among the different nations of the world, and contains 365 days for three years in succession, but every fourth year it contains 366 days. When any year can be divided by four, without any remainder, it is leap year, and has 366 days. The days in each month are stated in the following distichs.

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RULE. Place dollars under dollars, dimes under dimes, cents under cents, and mills under mills, and add the columns together, as in the addition of simple numbers, and place a period or point immediately after the dollars, separating them from the cents.

NOTE. The eagles and dollars are usually written together; as are also the dimes, cents, and mills. The dollars are separated from the cents by a point; all the figures at the left of the point are dollars, and, at the right of the point, the first two figures are cents, and the third is mills. Three dollars fifteen cents six mills are written $3.156. Seventy-four dollars three cents four mills are written $74.034. Seventeen dollars five mills are written $ 17.005.

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5. Bought a coat for $17.81; a vest for $3.75; a pair

of pantaloons for $2.87; and a pair of boots for $7.18; what was the amount ?

Ans. 31.61.

6. Sold a load of wood for seven dollars six cents; five bushels of corn for four dollars seventy-five cents, and seven bushels of potatoes for two dollars six cents; 'what was received for the whole ?

SUBTRACTION.

Ans. $13.87.

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13. Bought a horse for one hundred seventy-five dollars, and sold him for two hundred twenty-nine dollars eight cents; what was gained by the bargain?

Ans. $54.08. 14. From one hundred dollars, there was paid to one man seventeen dollars nine cents, to another twentythree dollars eight cents, and to another thirty-three dollars twenty-five cents; how much cash remained?

15. From ten dollars take nine mills.

MULTIPLICATION.

Ans. $26.58.
Ans. $9.991.

RULE. Multiply the quantity by the price, and in the answer point off as many figures for cents and mills, as there are in the price.

16. What cost 143 barrels of flour at $7.25 per barrel?

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