Talk:Bushel

Gallons

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)

show me the pics!

For some reason, I can't visualise 35.2307 litres. Any chance of a pic of a bushel-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)

The standard brown paper grocery bag in the US is about 2/3 bushel. Robert Hiller (talk) 06:27, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

Significant digits

The large number of digits used in the equivalents is pointless and distracting. For what it's worth, Google calculator (as a unit calculator) differs with the present article in about the 8th digit in the metric equivalent to a bushel. Robert Hiller (talk) 06:27, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

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)

We need to figure out which of the ones listed were used for dry goods. --Random832 (contribs) 15:33, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Assize of Bread and Ale indicates the existence of a bushel of eight wine gallons [1848 in³ if the wine gallon is the same one used now, or the volume of sixty-four pounds of wine. The pound described appears to be the tower pound; eight tower pounds (as understood today) per 231-cubic-inch gallon gives a density of 0.74 kg/L]. http://sizes.com/library/British%20law/Carysfort_Wine_Gallon.pdf discusses this and suggests the existence of a wine gallon of 224 in³. --Random832 (contribs) 13:08, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

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)

US

One bushel of oats is 38 lbs, 0.01723651 Metric Tons. Heikkiwp (talk) 09:35, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

1875/1878 ref sloping sides

Real world bushel baskets tend to have rounded bottoms, at least around the edge. Real world bushel baskets may have straight or sloping sides. But the definition of a bushel volume (18.5 in diameter, 8 in high) would be a perfect cylinder. So it is surprising and confusing that the Bushel article features a Queensland 1875/1878 brass Standard reference bushel with sloping sides and rounded bottom. Did most historic reference bushels have sloping sides? This historic detail about defining this volume measure deserves mention. Also, the Bushel article should include a good photo of at least one typical ordinary farmers market bushel basket. (This photo is mis-titled. The Queensland object itself is clearly engraved A.D. 1878, not 1875.) -71.174.175.150 (talk) 16:08, 1 November 2014 (UTC)

Sources for article expansion

• Review of Bushel of Corn.

 — LlywelynII 07:24, 20 April 2015 (UTC)