. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 2 BULLETIN 1065, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. grain required to fill level full a Winchester bushel measure of cubic inches capacity. The legal bushel is based on weight instead of measure or volume. For each of several grains a fixed number of pounds is considered a legal bushel; for example, for wheat 60 pounds constitutes a legal bushel; corn, rye, and flaxseed, 56 pounds; barley 48 pounds; and oats 32 pounds. The standard Winchester bushel measure contains 32 quarts, whereas the actual volume in quarts
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 2 BULLETIN 1065, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. grain required to fill level full a Winchester bushel measure of cubic inches capacity. The legal bushel is based on weight instead of measure or volume. For each of several grains a fixed number of pounds is considered a legal bushel; for example, for wheat 60 pounds constitutes a legal bushel; corn, rye, and flaxseed, 56 pounds; barley 48 pounds; and oats 32 pounds. The standard Winchester bushel measure contains 32 quarts, whereas the actual volume in quarts of a legal bushel of grain de-. Fig. 1.—Standard apparatus for determining the test weight per bushel of grain. pends upon its test weight. This is illustrated in figure 2. The volume in quarts required for a legal bushel by weight may be de- termined by multiplying the legal weight per bushel by 32 and divid- ing that product by the test weight per bushel of the grain in ques- tion. For example, the legal weight of wheat being 60 pounds for a bushel and the test weight of the wheat in question being 50 pounds, how many quarts will be required to weigh 60 pounds? Solution: Multiply 60 by 32 and divide by 50, as follows: 60x32=1920-^50= quarts, the volume required to weigh 60 pounds or a legal bushel. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States. Dept. of Agriculture. [Washington, D. C. ?] : The Dept. : Supt. of Docs. , G. P. O.
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