Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1869 — Agricultural and Domestic. [ARTICLE]

Agricultural and Domestic.

Useful Memoranda. A box 24 inches by 16 inches square and 28 inches deep will contain a barrel, or ft bushel*, or 10,752 cubic inches. A box 24 inches by 16 inches square and 14 inches deep will contain halt'a barrel, or2i hsahels, ur 5876 cubic inches. l>ox 16 inches, by 16.8 inches square and 8 inches deep will contain one b ishel, or 2150.4 cubic inches. A box 12 inches by 11.2 inches square arid 8 inches deep will contain half a bushels, or 1075.2 cubic inches. , t A box 8 inches by 8.4 inches square and 8 inches deep will contain one jwck, or 587.6 cubic inches. A box 8 inches bv 8 inches square and 4.2 inches deep will contain half a peek, or 268.8 cnbic inches. A box 7 inches by 4 inches square and 4.8 inches deep will contain half a gallon, at *184.4 cubic inches. Size of squares containing fractional parts of an acre. One sixteenth of an acre contains 27224 square feet, and the side of a square enclosing that area will be about 52 feet 2» inches. One eighth of an acre contains 5445 square feet, and the aide of the enclosing square will be about 78 feet 10 inches. One quarter of an acre contains 10,890 square feet, and the side of an enclosing square will be about 104 feet 4g inches. One half of an acre contains 21.880 square feet, and the side of the enclosing square will be about 147 feet 7 inches. One acre contains 48,560 square feet, and the enclosing square is about 20S feet 8| inches. Two acres contains 87.120 square feet, and the side of the enclosing square is about 295 feet 2 inches.