Stephen Gallagher wrote in USMA 14117:
>> > Cider: - Thirty litres of apples will make about ten litres of cider.
>>
>> I've never seen apples priced by volume. Shouldn't that be 30 kg?
>
>Aren't "bushels" volume measurements?
>They're ifp, of course, but I have seen apples sold
>using that unit. Don't ask me how big it is.
Theoretically, yes. Legally
1 Canadian or imperial bushel = 36.368 72 L
! US dry bushel = 35,239 07 L
It is more convenient to measure grains by mass than by volume, hence the
Canadian and US grain trades agreed on a table of the mass of a bushel of
each grain. I think it was 60 lb. per bushel for wheat and 35 lb per
bushel for oats. So far as Canada is concerned that is ancient history.
Canadian wheat is now quoted by the tonne.
I have heard of a bushel basket. I suspect that a bushel of apples is a
bushel basket of apples, more or less full.
Joseph B. Reid
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Toronto M5P 1C8 Tel. 416 486-6071
