2001-06-30
I remember going to the apple farm south of Cleveland when I was a kid. I
don't remember how they charged for the apples, but I do remember filling
those baskets to over filling. On some of the pre-packaged baskets sitting
on the shelves, one would always see the old ladies move some of the apples
from other baskets to make their basket a little fuller. Or move some of the
more nasty looking or bruised apples from "their" basket to another. The
old switcher-roo.
With so much heaping I can't see how a business could charge by the volume.
They'd lose money, unless they somehow accounted for those heaping bushels.
Just goes to show you with FFU you can create your own standards.
John
Keiner ist hoffnungsloser versklavt als derjenige, der irrt�mlich glaubt
frei zu sein.
There are none more hopelessly enslaved then those who falsely believe they
are free!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph B. Reid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, 2001-06-30 18:26
Subject: [USMA:14134] (no subject)
> 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
> 17 Glebe Road West
> Toronto M5P 1C8 Tel. 416 486-6071
>
