Talk:Bushel

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Something is screwy about the last part of the History section. All of a sudden it is talking about gallons. Either these facts are out of place, or there is some relationship between the gallon and the bushel that is not clear from the text. ike9898 21:37, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

A bushel is eight gallons, and has been since the Magna Carta. Wendy.krieger 08:02, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] show me the pics!

For some reason, I can't visualise 35.2307 litres. Any chance of a pic of a busel sized container with someone stood next to it?

During the history, is there any container used to measure bushels? It seems that there must be one. Jackzhp 02:55, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

The Winchester bushel was defined in terms of a cylinder, 18 1/2 inches in diameter, and 8 inches high. This is the same as the US bushel. Were one to place a cone on top (as one would pouring wheat), six inches high and 19 1/2 inches diameter at the base, then one has the US heaped bushel.

we see that 8*18.5*18.5 * pi/4 gives 2150.420171 cu in, and with the cone, 2747.715474 cu in. Both of these units are mentioned in the 1824 report on weights and measures. Wendy.krieger 10:40, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

The US dry bushel might be visualised as a cylinder 14 inches high and 14 inches in diameter, while the heaped bushel as a 14-inch cube. These are very close: the 14-inch cylinder yields 2155.132 and 2744 cubic inches respectively, a difference of 0.2 %. Wendy.krieger 07:12, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bushels vs gallons

It should be made more clear that the cubic inch measurements are for different bushels - not for their respective gallons.72.231.18.127 23:40, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Not all of the gallons listed were used with bushels, even though it is understood that the bushel is a proportional name for eight gallons. Bushels are used only for dry goods (ie solids that might be poured), which does not include beer, ale and wine. Wendy.krieger 10:46, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] UK

The article says "Government policy in both the United States and the United Kingdom is to phase out units such as the bushel" -- as far as I know, the bushel has already been phased out in the UK and replaced with metric units (i.e. metric tonne). (Search google for UK wheat price bushel OR ton OR tonne and most results are for £/ton or €/ton, it's the USA sites using $/bushel)