Transactions of the Northern Wisconsin Agricultural and Mechanical Association, Τόμος 5

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Northern Wisconsin Agricultural and Mechanical Association., 1878
 

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Σελίδα 254 - Dry Measure. — 2 pints = 1 quart; 8 quarts = 1 peck; 4 pecks = 1 bushel.
Σελίδα 247 - A note by a minor is void. A contract made with a minor is void. A contract made with a lunatic is void. A note obtained by fraud, or from a person in a state of intoxication, cannot be collected.
Σελίδα 252 - ... height of the crib, inside of the rail; multiply the length by the breadth and the product by the height; then divide the product by two, and you have the number of bushels in the crib.
Σελίδα 254 - MISCELLANEOUS TABLE. 12 units, or things, 1 Dozen. 12 dozen, 1 Gross. 20 things, 1 Score. 196 pounds, 1 Barrel of Flour. 200 pounds, 1 Barrel of Pork.
Σελίδα 253 - Square Measure 144 square inches = 1 square foot 9 square feet = 1 square yard 30£...
Σελίδα 246 - One thousand laths will cover seventy yards of surface, and eleven pounds of lath nails will nail them on. Eight bushels of good lime, sixteen bushels of sand and one bushel of hair will make enough mortar to plaster one hundred square yards.
Σελίδα 247 - A receipt for money paid is not legally conclusive. The acts of one partner bind all the others. Contracts made on Sunday cannot be enforced.
Σελίδα 246 - One thousand six hundred laths will cover seventy yards of surface, and eleven pounds of lath nails will nail them on. Eight bushels of good lime, sixteen bushels of sand and one bushel of hair will make enough good mortar to plaster 100 square yards.
Σελίδα 245 - ... hills. For I can tell them Fortune does not give away her real and substantial goods. She sells them to the highest bidder, to the hardest, wisest worker for the boon. Men never make so fatal a mistake as when they think they are mere creatures of a fate ; 'tis the sheerest folly in the world.
Σελίδα 244 - Either a man must be content with poverty all his life, or else be willing to deny himself some luxuries, and save to lay the base of independence in the future. But if a man defies the future, and spends all that he earns, whether it be...

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