Standard Weights And Measures

The following tables are worth preserving : Bushel. Lbs. Bushel. . Lbs. Wheat -, 60 1 Peas 60 Bye 56 Hominy 60 Corn, ehelled 56 Irish potatoes 60 Coru,inear 70 Sweet potatoes 50 Oats 32 Dried peacnes 33 Clover seed, red 62 Dried apples 24 Timothy seed 45 Flax seed 66 Millet seed 50 BaFley. 46 Buckwheat 52 Malt 34 Beans, white 60 Hungarian seed 50 Bran .....20 Onion seed 57 Charcoal 30 Salt, coarso 50 Gom meal 50 Canary seed 50 Plafitering hair 8 Blue grass seed 14 Onion setts 25 Turnips 60 TO MEASUBE COBN IN A CRIB. Having leveled the com in the crib, measure the length, ■width and depth, and multiply them together, and divide the product by one-fifth, and you have the number of bushels in the car - for shelled corn take one-half. To be strictly correct, add a half bushel to every on e hundred. Corn, approximately, one hundred ears to the bushel. HOW MTJOH SEED TO THE ACEK. The quantity of seed sown broadcast to the acre is about as follows : Wheat, bu 1H to 2 Barley,bu IX t0 2'i Oats, bu 1 to 4 Bye,bu 1 to 2 Buckwheat, bu y, to IX Millet.bu , 1 to 2 Indian corn, bu 1 to 2 Beans, bu 2 to 3 Peas.bu 2) to 3 Heinp.bu , 1 to IV