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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.
In some places potatoes might be sold by the firkin—usually a liquid measure—with one town defining a firkin as 3 bushels, and the next town as 2 1/2 bushels. [22] The pint was the smallest unit in the corn measure. The corn gallon, one eighth of a bushel, was approximately 268.8 cubic inches.
Corn: CBOT: XCBT: 5000 bu C/ZC (Electronic) Corn EURONEXT: 50 tons EMA Corn DCE: XDCE: 10 metric tons c Oats CBOT: XCBT: 5000 bu O/ZO (Electronic) Rough Rice CBOT: XCBT: 2000 cwt: ZR Soybeans CBOT: XCBT: 5000 bu: S/ZS (Electronic) No 2. Soybean DCE XDCE: 10 metric tons b Rapeseed: EURONEXT 50 tons ECO Soybean Meal: CBOT: XCBT: 100 short tons SM ...
The grain was the legal foundation of traditional English weight systems, [5] and is the only unit that is equal throughout the troy, avoirdupois, and apothecaries' systems of mass. [6]: C-6 The unit was based on the weight of a single grain of barley which was equal to about + 4 ⁄ 3 the weight of a single grain of wheat.
And a 100 gram serving of corn flour (which equals roughly 3/4 cup) contains about 77 grams of carbohydrates, 7 grams of fiber and 7.5 grams of protein. Is corn actually good for you?
Barleycorn (unit) a unit of length, equal to one-third of an inch; Barleycorn (surname) The Barleycorn, an Irish traditional music band "John Barleycorn", a traditional British folk-song; John Barleycorn, by Jack London
[3] [4] [5] 3 qr. was a Flemish ell, 4 quarters were a yard, 5 qr. was an (English) ell, and 6 qr. was an aune or French ell. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Each quarter was made up of 4 nails . [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Its metric equivalent was formerly reckoned as about 0.228596 m , [ 5 ] but the International Yard and Pound Agreement set it as 0.2286 exactly in 1959.
A customary unit of volume defined as the volume of one acre of surface area to a depth of one foot, commonly used in the United States about large-scale water or soil resources. One acre-foot is equal to 43,560 cubic feet (1,233 m 3). adjuvant A chemical compound added to a pesticide formulation to increase its efficacy or safety. [2] aerial ...