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Dry or Corn Measure

= = = 8 = 32 64 1 = 4 = 8 = 64 = 2,218.192 1 2 = 1 = Capacity in 51217,745.536 554.548 6031. English Weights and Measures. Avoirdupois and Troy weight are Quarter. Bushels. Pecks. Gallons. Pints. Cubic Inches. exactly the same as used in the United States, 1 and the tables will be found in Nos. 5935, &c.

In the new British Pharmacopœia, the weights are expressed in pounds, ounces, and grains, avoirdupois; thus superseding the Apothecaries weight as now in use in the United The above capacities are for struck measure; States. The old British avoirdupois drachm the heaped measures contain nearly 1/8 more, (16 ounce or 27.344 grains) is now obsolete, the heaped bushel containing 2815 cubic except in weighing silk. The new drachm is inches. ounce.