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• • • one pound of 16 ounces. is one quart Indian meal .... one pound 2 ounces. • is one quart Butter, when soft, • • one pound 1 ounce •. is one quart Loaf-sugar, broken up, one pound is one quart White sugar, powdered, one pound 1 ounce. • is one quart Best brown sugar. • one pound 2 ounces •. is one quart Eggs .•••.. ten eggs .... weigh one pound.

Four large table-spoonfuls .... are .... half a jill. Eight large table-spoonfuls •. . are .... one jill. Two jills .are. , • • . half a pint A common-sized tumbler. . • . holds. . . half a pint A common-sized wine-glass •. . holds about. half a jill. Two pints • are .... one quart Four quarts are .... one gallon.

About twenty-five drops of any thin liquid will fill a common-sized tea-spoon.

Four table-spoonfuls will generally fill a common-sized wine-glass.

Four wine-glasses will fill a half-pint tumbler, or a large coffee-cup.

A quart black bottle holds in reality about a pint and a half; sometimes not so much.

A table-spoonful of salt is about one ounce.

Half a gallon. . . . . . is. . .a quarter of a peck. One gallon is. . . half a peck. Two gallons ...••. are. . one peck. Four gallons are. . half a bushel. Eight gallons ... .. are. . one bushel.