TABLE. 1728 solid inches, S. in. make 1 solid foot, S. ft. 27 solid feet 1 solid yard S. yd. Ton. feet of hewn timber, 128 solid feet=8×4×4, that is, a pile 8 feet in length, 4 feet in width, and 4 feet in height. NOTE.-A Cord foot, is one foot in length of the pile which makes a cord. It contains sixteen solid feet. Q. For what is solid or cubic measure used? What are its denominations? What is a cube? What is a cubic or solid foot? What is a cubic yard? How many cubic feet in a cubic yard? What is the content of a solid equal to? Repeat the Table. What is a cord of wood? How many solid feet does it contain? EXAMPLES. 1. Reduce 14 Tons of round timber to solid inches. Ans. 967680 solid inches. 2. In 55 cords of wood, how many solid feet? Ans. 7040. 3. In 25 cords of wood, how many cord feet? Ans. 200 cord ft. 4. Reduce 3058560 cubic inches to tons of round WINE MEASURE. § 66. Wine measure is used in measuring all liquors excepting beer and ale. Its denominations, are tuns, pipes, hogsheads, barrels, gallons, quarts, pints, and gills. NOTE.-A gallon, wine measure, contains 231 cubic inches. Q. What is measured by wine measure? What are its denominations? Repeat the Table. What is the content of the wine gallon? EXAMPLES. 1. In 5 tuns 1 hogshead of wine, how many gallons? 2. Reduce 12 pipes 1 hogshead and 1 to pints. 3. In 1 tun of cider, how many gills? quart of wine, Ans. 12602pt. Ans. 8064. 4. In 10584 quarts of wine, how many tuns? Ans. 10tuns. 2hhd. 5. Reduce 201632 gills to tuns. Ans. 25tuns. 1gal. 6. Reduce 16128 gills of cider to tuns. ALE OR BEER MEASURE. § 67. Ale or beer measure is used in measuring ale, beer, and milk. Its denominations are hogsheads, barrels, gallons, quarts, and pints. NOTE.-A gallon, beer measure, contains 282 cubic inches. Q. For what is ale or beer measure used? What are its denominations? Repeat the Table. How many cubic inches in a gallon, beer measure? EXAMPLES. 1. Reduce 47bar. 16gal. 4qt. to pints. Ans. 13672pt. 2. In 27hhd. of beer, how many pints? Ans. 11664. 3. In 55832 pints of beer, how many hogsheads? Ans. 129hhd. 13gal. 4. In 64972 quarts of beer, how many barrels ? Ans. 451bar. 7g ``. DRY MEASURE. 68. Dry measure is used in measuring all dry articles, such as grain, fruits, roots, salt, coal, &c. Its denominations are chaldrons, bushels, pecks, quarts, and pints. NOTE-A gallon Dry measure contains 2683 cubic inches. A Winchester bushel is 18 inches in diameter, 8 inches deep, and contains 2150 cubic inches. Q. What is the use of Dry measure? What are its denominations? Repeat the Table. What is the content of a gallon? How large is a Winchester bushel? EXAMPLES. 1. In 372 bushels, how many pints? 2. In 5 chaldrons 31 bushels, how many pecks? 3. In 17408 pints, how many bushels ? 4. In 4220 pints, how many chaldrons ? TIME. Ans. 23808. Ans. 844. Ans. 272. Ans. 1ch. 29bu. 3pk. 6qt. § 69. The denominations of time are years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds. 60 seconds sec. make 1 minute, marked 60 minutes 7 days 1 hour, 13 mo. 1 day and 6 hrs. m. yr. wk. da. hr. 1=52=3651-8766-525960=31557600 1 = 604800 The whole days only are reckoned. The odd six hours, by accumulating for 4 years, make one day, so that every fourth year contains 366 days. This is called the Bissextile, or Leap year. When the Leap year occurs, the number of years up to that time is exactly divisible by 4. Thus 1800, 1804, 1808, 1812, 1816, 1820, 1824, 1828, 1832, and 1836 were all leap years. The year is also divided into 12 callendar months, which contain an unequal number of days. The additional day, when it occurs, is added to the month of February, so that this month has 29 days in the Leap year. Thirty days hath September, Excepting February, twenty-eight alone. Q. What are the denominations of Time? How long is a year? How many days in a common year? How many days in a leap year? How many calendar months in a year? Name them and the number of days in each. How many days has February in the leap year? How do you remember which of the months have 30 days, and which 31? |
