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TO MEASURE CORN IN THE CRIB.
This rule will apply to a crib of any size or kind. Two cubic feet
of good, sound, dry corn in the ear willl make a bushel of shelled
corn. To get, then, the quantity of shelled corn in a crib of corn in
the ear, measure the length, breadth and height of the crib, inside
of the rail; multiply the length by the breadth, and the product by
the height; then divide the product by two, and you have the num-
ber of bushels of shelled corn in the crib.
To find the number of bushels of apples, potatoes, etc., in a bin,
multiply the length, breadth and thickness together, and this pro-
duct by 8 and point off one figure in the product for decimals.

BUSHEL MEASURE.
The following table shows the legal number of pounds per bushel of the following articles on the States therein named:

ARTICLES. Mich. Ind. Ill. W18. Iowa. Mo. N.Y.
Wheat....................................... 60 60 60 60 60 60 60
Corn, Shelled,............................ 56 56 56 56 56 56 58
Corn, in Ear,.............................. 70 68 70 70 70 70 70
Oats,......................................... 32 32 32 32 33 35 32
Barley,...................................... 48 48 48 48 48 48 48
Rey,........................................... 56 56 56 56 56 56 56
Buckwheat,................................ 42 50 52 40 52 52 48
White Beans,.............................. 60 60 60 60 60 60 60
Irish Potatoes,............................ 60 60 60 60 60 60 60
Sweet Potatoes,------------------------- 55 55 55 55 46 55 55
Turnips,.................................... 55 55 55 55 55 55 55
Onions,..................................... 57 57 57 57 57 57 57
Dried Peaches,.......................... 28 33 33 28 33 33 32
Dried Apples,............................ 28 25 24 28 24 24 22
Bran,........................................ 20 __ 20 20 20 20 20
Hungarian Grass Seed,.............. 48 48 48 48 45 48 48
Hemp Seed,.............................. 44 44 44 44 44 44 44
Flax Seed,................................. 56 56 56 56 56 56 56
Stone Coal,................................ __ 70 80 __ 80 __ __
Charcoal,.................................. 22 22 22 22 22 22 22
Coarse Salt,............................... 50 50 50 50 50 50 56
Clover Seed,.............................. 60 60 60 60 60 60 60
Timothy Seed,........................... __ __ 45 46 45 __ __

INTEREST TABLE.
A SIMPLE RULE FOR ACCURATELY COMPUTING INTEREST AT ANY GIVEN PER CENT. FOR ANY LENGTH OF TIME.
Multiply the principal (amount of money at interest) by the time
reduced to days; then divide this product by the quotient obtained
by dividing 360 (the number of days in the in-
terest year) by the per cent. of interest, and Solution.
the quotient thus obtained will be the required
interest. $462.50
.48
ILLUSTRATION. ---------
Require the interest of $462.50 for one month 370000
and eighteen days at 6 per cent. An interest 6)360 ) 185000
month is 30 days; one month and eighteen days --------) -----------------
equal 48 days. $462.50 multiplied by .48 gives 60) $222.0000($3.70
$222.0000; 360 divided by 6 (the per cent. of in- 180
terest) gives 60, and $222.0000 divided by 60 will --------
give you the exact interest, which is $3.70. If 420
the rate of interest n the above example were 420
12 per cent., we would divide the $222.0000 by 30 00
(because 360 divided by 12 gives 30); if 4 per cent., we would divide by
90; if 8 per cent., by 45; and in like manner for any other per cent.
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