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Formula

200 lb. wheat bran
100 lb. middlings

100 lb. corn meal

Refer to formula in answering questions 46-50.

46. What part of the mixture is corn meal? 47. What part of the mixture is wheat bran?

48. How many pounds of each ingredient are there in a ton of the mixture?

49. How many pounds of each ingredient are there in 100 lb. of the mixture?

50. How many pounds of each ingredient are there in 50 lb. of the mixture?

51. Fill in the missing amounts in the following:

One Man's Experience Both Ways

Here is the comparative cost of hauling whole milk, as against hauling cream alone, as figured by one dairyman from his actual experience with both methods:

Cost of Hauling Whole Milk

.

20 weeks, 5 deliveries per week,
5 hours per day, with heavy
wagon, time of man and team
valued at 20 cents per hour
32 weeks, 3 deliveries per week,
5 hours per day, with heavy
wagon, time of man and team
valued at 20 cents per hour
Total cost per year of deliver-
ing whole milk

. $

Cost of Hauling Cream Only

20 weeks, 3 deliveries per week,
2 hours per day, with light
wagon, time of man and team
valued at 20 cents per hour
32 weeks, 2 deliveries per week,
2 hours per day, with light
wagon, time of man and team
valued at 20 cents per hour
Total cost per year of deliver-
ing cream only

YEARLY SAVING THROUGH HAULING CREAM ONLY

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DENOMINATE AMOUNTS

DEFINITIONS

153. Denominate units are units established by custom or law to measure capacity, weight, time, length, surface, solids, etc.

Thus, a gallon, a pound, a day, a yard, etc., are denominate units.

154. A simple denominate amount is any number of like denominate units.

Thus, 6 bushels, of a yard, and 2 pounds are simple denominate

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Barrels are of various sizes, but 31 gal. is usually taken as the capacity for a barrel unless otherwise stated.

Exercise 77

1. How many pints are there in 4 qt.? 2. One pint is what part of a quart?

3. How many quarts are there in

gal.?

4. How many quarts are there in 2 gal.?
5. How many pints are there in a gallon?
6. How many gills are there in a quart?
7.gal. of alcohol will fill how many gill bottles?
8. What part of a gallon is 2 qt.? 3 qt.?

9. How many quarts are there in 8 pt.? 18 pt.? 24 pt.?

10. How many gallons are there in 24 qt.? 32 qt.? 40 qt.?

156.

Dry Measure

Table

2 pints (pt.) = 1 quart (qt.)
8 quarts = 1 peck (pk.)
=1 bushel (bu.)

4 pecks

The heaped bushel, which contains about 5 pk., or of a stricken bushel, is used in measuring corn in the ear, potatoes, apples, lime, turnips, and various other substances.

Two bushels of corn in the ear are considered the equivalent of one bushel of shelled corn.

Exercise 78

1. How many quarts are there in 3 pk.?

2. A quart is what part of a peck?

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4. How many quarts are there in a bushel? bu, ? 5. One peck is what part of a bushel?

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6. Two pecks are what part of a bushel? 3 pk.? 7. How many quarts are there in 1 bu.?

8. How many half bushels of grain will fill a 3-bu. bag? 9. A trucker put bu. berries into quart boxes; how many boxes were required?

10. When timothy seed sells for $3 per bushel, how much is that per peck?

ad the cost of 2 bu. of clover seed at $11 per

'hen potatoes are selling at 30 a peck, how that per bushel?

5 pk. of seed will fill how many bushel sacks I many pecks over?

How many quart boxes will be required to hold

cherries?

MEASURES OF WEIGHT

Avoirdupois Weight

Table

16 ounces (oz.) = 1 pound (lb.) 2000 pounds = 1 ton (T.)

. is sometimes called 1 hundredweight (cwt.). Goods are y shipped by the hundredweight.

ng ton, 2240 pounds, is used in custom houses and someewhere, especially in selling coal. Anthracite coal is always. he mines, and often retailed, by the long ton. Bituminous requently sold in the same way.

Weights of Grains, Seeds, and Other Produce

158. The following table gives the number of pounds in a bushel of various commodities as used by the Boards of Trade in the principal cities of the United States:

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1. What should bu. shelled corn weigh?
2. What should a peck of clover seed weigh?
peck of oats weigh?

3. What should

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