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WINE MEASURE.

§ 66. Wine measure is used in measuring all liquors excepting beer and ale. Its denominations, are tuns, pipes, hogsheads, barrels, gallons, quarts, pints, and gills.

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NOTE.-A gallon, wine measure, contains 231 cubic inches.

Q. What is measured by wine measure? What are its denominations? Repeat the Table. What is the content of the wine gallon?

EXAMPLES.

1. In 5 tuns 1 hogshead of wine, how many gallons?

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4. In 10584 quarts of wine, how many tuns?

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Ans. 25tuns. 1gal
Ans. 2tune

6. Reduce 16128 gills of cider to tuns.

ALE OR BEER MEASURE.

§ 67. Ale or beer measure is used in measuring ale beer, and milk. Its denominations are hogsheads, barrels gallons, quarts, and pints.

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NOTE. A gallon, beer measure, contains 282 cubic inches.

Q. For what is ale or beer measure used? What are its denominations? Repeat the Table. How many cubic inches in a gallon, beer measure?

EXAMPLES.

1. Reduce 47bar. 16gal. 4qt. to pints.

2. In 27hhd. of beer, how many pints?

Ans. 13672pt.

Ans. 11664

3. In 55832 pints of beer, how many hogsheads?

4. In 64972 quarts of beer, how

Ans. 129hhd. 13ga!

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DRY MEASURE.

68. Dry measure is used in measuring all dry articles, such as grain, fruits, roots, salt, coal, &c. Its denominations are chaldrons, bushels, pecks, quarts, and pints.

TABLE.

2 pints pt. make 1 quart, marked qt.

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1 peck,

1 bushel,

1 chaldron,

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pk.

bu.

ch.

NOTE. A gallon Dry measure contains 268 cubic inches. A Winchester bushel is 18

inches in diameter, 8 inches

deep, and contains 2150 cubic inches.

Q. What is the use of Dry measure? What are its denominations? Repeat the Table. What is the content of a gallon? How large is a. Winchester bushel?

EXAMPLES.

1. In 372 bushels, how many pints?

2. In 5 chaldrons 31 bushels, how many pecks?

3. In 17408 pints, how many bushels? 4. In 4220 pints, how many chaldrons ?

TIME.

Ans. 23808.

Ans. 844.
Ans. 272.

Ans. 1ch. 29bu. 3pk. 6qt.

§ 69. The denominations of time are years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds.

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The whole days only are reckoned. The odd six hours, by accumulating for 4 years, make one day, so that every fourth year contains 366 days. This is called the Bissextile, or Leap year.

When the Leap year occurs, the number of years up to that time is exactly divisible by 4. Thus 1800, 1804, 1808, 1812, 1816, 1820, 1824, 1828, 1832, and 1836 were all leap years.

The year is also divided into 12 calendar months, which contain an unequal number of days.

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The additional day, when it occurs, is added to the 1..nth of February, so that this month has 29 days in the 1.sap year.

Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November;
All the rest have thirty-one,

Excepting February, twenty-eight alone.

Q. What are the denominations of Time? How long is a year? How many days in a common year? How many days in a leap year? How many calendar months in a year? Name them and the number of days in each. How many days has February in the leap year? How do you remember which of the months have 30 days, an! which 31?

EXAMPLES.

1. How many seconds in a year of 365da. 6hr.?

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2. In 12 years of 365da. 23hr. 57m. 39sec. each, how many seconds? Ans. 379467108sec. 3. In 49 weeks, how many minutes? Ans. 493920. 4. In 126230400 seconds, how many years of 365 days?

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5. In 756952018 seconds, how many years of 365 days each? Ans. 24yr. 1da. 26m. 58sec. 6. In 5927040 minutes, how many weeks? Ans. 588.

CIRCULAR MEASURE OR MOTION.

70. Circular measure is used in estimating latitude and longitude, and also in measuring the motions of the Beavenly bodies. Every circle is supposed to be divided fat, 360 equal parts, called degrees.

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