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  2. Barleycorn (unit) - Wikipedia

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    Under the 1300 Composition of Yards and Perches, one of the statutes of uncertain date that was notionally in force until the 1824 Weights and Measures Act, "3 barly cornes dry and rounde" [2] [3] were to serve as the basis for the inch and thence the larger units of feet, yards, perches and thus of the acre, an important unit of area.

  3. Bushel - Wikipedia

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    The Winchester bushel is the volume of a cylinder 18.5 in (470 mm) in diameter and 8 in (200 mm) high, which gives an irrational number of approximately 2150.4202 cubic inches. [4] The modern American or US bushel is a variant of this, rounded to exactly 2150.42 cubic inches, less than one part per ten million less. [ 5 ]

  4. Cooking weights and measures - Wikipedia

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    1 ⁄ 8 cup 1 29.5735 2 fluid ounce = 1 wineglass wineglass‡ wgf. 1 ⁄ 4 cup 2 59.1471 2 wineglasses = 1 teacup gill‡ or teacup‡ tcf. 1 ⁄ 2 cup 4 118.294 2 teacups = 1 cup cup: C 1 ⁄ 2 pint 8 236.588 2 cups = 1 pint pint: pt. 1 ⁄ 2 qt 16 473.176 2 pints = 1 quart quart: qt. 1 ⁄ 4 gal 32 946.353 2 quarts = 1 pottle‡ gallon: gal ...

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    Put corn into small freezer bags (one or two cups per bag depending on how much you want per serving) and freeze. Piper Giles serves sweet corn during Adel's Sweet Corn Festival on Saturday, Aug ...

  6. Corn production in the United States - Wikipedia

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    One bushel of corn can produce 2.8 gallons of ethanol in as well as 17-18 pounds of DDGS. [13] Compared to other major sources, corn is the least efficient means of ethanol production. In 2007, the production process used 75% of the energy extracted. [14] [needs update] On account of great demand for ethanol, corn is fetching higher prices.

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    A butter knife across the top of your measuring cup can level out your ingredients. But there’s one tip that’s arguably the most important: choosing the right measuring cup to begin with ...

  8. Stop Throwing Out Leftover Corn On The Cob & Do This Instead

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  9. Winchester measure - Wikipedia

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    The Winchester bushel is first mentioned by name in a statute of 1670 entitled An Act for ascertaining the Measures of Corn and Salt (22 Cha. 2. c. 8) which states, And that if any person or persons after the time aforesaid shall sell any sort of corn or grain, ground or unground, or any kind of salt, usually sold by the bushel, either in open ...