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bushel
measure. The Winchester bushel was made the standard of grain; a cylindrical vessel, eighteen and a half inches in diameter, and eight inches deep inside, contains a bushel; the capacity is 2145.42 cubic inches. By law or usage it is established in most of the United States. The exceptions, as far as known, are Connecticut, where the bushel holds 2198 cubic inches Kentucky, 2150 2/3; Indiana, Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri, where it contains 2150.4 cubic inches. See the whole subject discussed in report of the Secretary of State of the United States to the Senate, Feb. 22, 1821.
Source : Bouvier 1856
Language : English