 | Stoddard A. Felter, Samuel Ashbel Farrand - Arithmetic - 1875 - 316 pages
...light freight by the number of cubic feet it occupies ; but heavy freight is estimated by weight. (3). A pile of wood 4 feet wide, 4 feet high, and 8 feet long, contains 1 cord ; and a cord-foot is 1 foot in length of such a pile. (4.) A brick is usually 8 inches long, 4 inches... | |
 | George Augustus Walton, Electa Nobles Lincoln Walton - Arithmetic - 1877 - 348 pages
...cord, cord foot, and cubic foot. These are the units of WOOD MEASURE. 1 cord. cord. 1 cd. ft. 331. A pile of wood 4 feet wide, 4 feet high, and 8 feet...feet high, and 1 foot long, contains 1 cord foot. TABLE. 16 cubic feet = 1 cord foot, marked cd. ft. 8 cord feet or) = j cord « cd 128 cubic feet i... | |
 | Wilshire S. Courtney - Agriculture - 1878 - 590 pages
...light freight by the number of cubic feet it occupies ; but heavy freight is estimated by weight. 3. A pile of wood 4 feet wide, 4 feet high, and 8 feet long, contains 1 cord / and a cord foot is 1 foot in length of such a pile. 4. A perch of stone or masonry is 16 J feet long,... | |
 | Edwin Pliny Seaver, George Augustus Walton - Arithmetic - 1878 - 154 pages
...and laid in piles, so that I CORD ^rr^ the length of the sticks becomes the width of the pile. A pile 4 feet wide, 4 feet high, and 8 feet long, contains 1 cord. One eighth of a cord is called 1 cord foot. 1 cord foot contains 16 cubic feet. (See illustration above.)... | |
 | Edwin Pliny Seaver, George Augustus Walton - Arithmetic - 1878 - 360 pages
...feet long, and laid in piles, so that the length of the sticks becomes the width of the pile. A pile 4 feet wide, 4 feet high, and 8 feet long, contains 1 cord. One eighth of a cord is called 1 cord loot. 1 cord foot Contains 16 cubic feet. (See illustration above.)... | |
 | Detroit (Mich.) - 1888 - 466 pages
...cubic yard; 40 cubic feet of round timber, 1 ton ; 50 cubic feet of hewn timber, 1 ton; 138 cubic feet of wood (4 feet wide, 4 feet high, and 8 feet long), 1 cord; 24.75 cubic feet, 1 perch of stone. HOUSEHOLD WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. — Wheat flour, 1 pound... | |
 | Edwin Pliny Seaver, George Augustus Walton - Arithmetic - 1895 - 412 pages
...feet long, and laid in piles, so that the length of the sticks becomes the width of the pile. A pile 4 feet wide, 4 feet high, and 8 feet long, contains 1 cord. One eighth of a cord is called 1 cord foot. 1 cord foot contains 16 cubic feet. 23. SURVEYORS' LONG... | |
 | Edwin Pliny Seaver, George Augustus Walton - Arithmetic - 1895 - 252 pages
...feet long, and laid in piles, so that the length of the sticks becomes the width of the pile. Л pile 4 feet wide, 4 feet high, and 8 feet long, contains 1 cord. How many cubic feet are there in 1 cord? One eighth of a cord is called a cord foot. 1 cord foot contains... | |
 | William Joseph Moran - Arithmetic - 1900 - 198 pages
...cubic yard of earth is called a load. 2. In masonry 24f cubic feet are called a perch. 3. In lumbering a pile of wood 4 feet wide, 4 feet high, and 8 feet long is called a cord. 62. 1. How many cubic inches in 2 cu. ft. ? In 3 cu. ft. ? 2. How many cubic feet... | |
 | Charles Edward White, Bruce Mervellon Watson - Arithmetic - 1901 - 272 pages
...of wood 4 feet wide, 4 feet high, and 1 foot long is a Cord Foot. It contains how many cubic feet ? A pile of wood 4 feet wide, 4 feet high, and 8 feet long contains how many cord feet ? cubi feet 264. The answers to these questions give us the following TABLE OF WOOD... | |
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A pile of wood 4 feet wide, 4 feet high, and 8 feet long, contains 1 cord ; a pile 4 feet wide, 4 feet high, and 1 foot long, contains 1 cord foot. 
