A bushel (abbreviation: bsh. or bu.) is an imperial and US customary unit of volume based upon an earlier measure of dry capacity. The old bushel is equal...
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Bushel’s Case (1670) 124 E.R. 1006, also spelled Bushell's Case, is a famous English decision on the role of juries. It established beyond question the...
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"A Bushel and a Peck" is a popular song written by Frank Loesser and published in 1950. The song was introduced in the Broadway musical Guys and Dolls...
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The parable of the lamp under a bushel (also known as the lamp under a bowl) is one of the parables of Jesus. It appears in Matthew 5:14–15, Mark 4:21–25...
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Edward Bushel may refer to: Edward Bushel, juror in Bushel's Case Edward Bushel, allegedly husband of Mary Seymour, daughter of Catherine Parr, Henry VIII's...
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Mary Seymour (redirect from Mary Bushel)
that Mary Seymour did survive to adulthood, and in fact married Sir Edward Bushel, a member of the household of Anne of Denmark, wife of James VI and I. Strickland's...
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Fanega (redirect from Spanish bushel)
The fanega or Spanish bushel was an old measure of dry capacity in Spanish-speaking countries. It was generally used in an agricultural context to measure...
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The bushel with ibex motifs, also known as the beaker with ibex motifs, is a prehistoric pottery artifact originating from Susa, an ancient city in the...
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8.81 liters. Two pecks make a kenning (obsolete), and four pecks make a bushel. Although the peck is no longer widely used, some produce, such as apples...
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some modifications, until the present day. It consists of the Winchester bushel and its dependent quantities, the peck, (dry) gallon and (dry) quart. They...
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firkin as 3 bushels, and the next town as 2 1/2 bushels. The pint was the smallest unit in the corn measure. The corn gallon, one eighth of a bushel, was approximately...
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Some nominal weight examples are: 1 bushel (corn) = 56 lb (25.4012 kg) 1 bushel (wheat) = 60 lb (27.2155 kg) 1 bushel (barley) = 48 lb (21.7724 kg) The...
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Way of the Five Pecks of Rice (redirect from Five Bushels of Rice League)
The Way of the Five Pecks of Rice (Chinese: 五斗米道; pinyin: Wǔ Dǒu Mǐ Dào) or the Way of the Celestial Master, commonly abbreviated to simply The Celestial...
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customary systems, but they differ in their specific units of volume (the bushel, gallon, fluid ounce, etc.). The US customary system has one set of units...
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the price of wheat in 2002 was $3.80, farmers would get an extra 58¢ per bushel (52¢ plus the 6¢ price difference). Fruit and vegetable crops are not eligible...
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100 Bushels of Rye is a 1988 role-playing game adventure for HârnMaster published by Columbia Games. 100 Bushels of Rye is an adventure scenario which...
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Iowa reporting a record of 205 bushels of corn per acre. Overall production of corn in the U.S. was 15.1 billion bushels for 2021. The total production...
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area in the Highweek parish and Teignbridge Hundred, which was then Newton Bushel. The twin towns worked together and their markets were eventually combined...
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nominally of dry measure have become standardized as units of mass (see bushel); and many other units are commonly conflated or confused with units of...
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customary system – though it implicitly exists since the US dry measures of bushel, peck, quart, and pint are still used – and is not included in the National...
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the text reads: 15: Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house...
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pound per US bushel (1 g/cm3 ≈ 77.6888513 lb/bu) slug per cubic foot Imperial units differing from the above (as the Imperial gallon and bushel differ from...
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weight refers to the average weight of a cereal as measured in pounds per bushel (1bu. = 8 gallons or 2150.42 cu. inches). Test weight is an important predictor...
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used in Portugal and Spain by cork merchants and pig farmers. Arroba and bushel as weight units are similar (15 kg). The unit is still used in Brazil by...
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prices as cents per bushel, and a US bushel of grain is about 61 lb (28 kg), which would approximately correspond to the 4-bushel coomb (4 × 61 lb = 244 lb ≈ 111 kg)...
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feet (0.453 m3) Salt, 42 US bushels (1.480 m3) Lime, 40 US bushels (1.410 m3) Coke, 28 US bushels (0.99 m3) Wheat, 20 US bushels (0.705 m3) The nearest thing...
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number of dàn (石) or Chinese bushels of grain. This ranged from the ten-thousand-bushel rank at the top to the one-hundred-bushel at the bottom. Under this...
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a harvest of 427.7 million bushels (11.64 million metric tons) in 2008, after Iowa's production of 444.82 million bushels (12.11 million metric tons)...
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Caribbean countries; and the US dry gallon ("usdrygal"), defined as 1⁄8 US bushel (exactly 4.40488377086 L). There are two pints in a quart and four quarts...
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average quantity was 8 bushels of wheat, 30 bushels of oats, 16 bushels of barley, 20 bushels of beans, 8 bushels of rye and 20 bushels of buckwheat. In the...
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