Measuring Stock Foods USE of the following table will be found more satisfactory than the haphazard and often wasteful method of measuring stock foodstuffs by handfuls: 1 bushel = 8 gals = 32 quarts, 1 kerosene tin (4 gals.) = half a bushel. A box 4in. x 4in. x 4in.* = 1 quart. A box 6in. x 6in. x Bin.* = 1 gallon. A box 12in. x 12in. x 15Jtn.* = 1 bushel. * Internal measurements. A quart tin filled, but not packed, would represent ’ 32 of a bushel and the weight of the contents would be: — lb. oz. lb. oz. Wheat .... 1 14 Peas ..... .‘ 1 14 Maize .... 1 12 Barley .... 16 Oats 1 4 Salt (common) 2 . 0 Bran ...... 10 Pollard .... 0 10 Wheatmeal 1 8 Meatmeal 1 8
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New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 71, Issue 3, 15 September 1945, Page 228
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