Conversion Factors and Weights and Measures for Agricultural Commodities and Their Products

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Department of Agriculture, Economics, Statistics, and Cooperatives Service, 1979 - 89 pages

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Page 82 - ... marked weight, or sweated weight. The stocks are converted to the farm-sales-weight equivalent on the basis of average factors reflecting the percentage reported each quarter in each of these three categories.
Page 3 - In the metric system, designations of multiples and subdivisions of any unit may be arrived at by combining with the name of the unit the prefixes deka, hecto, and kilo, meaning, respectively, 10, 100, and 1,000, and deci, centi, and mill!, meaning, respectively, one-tenth, onehundredth, and one-thousandth.
Page 3 - Bl can be used to calculate the metric-unit equivalents of values expressed in US customary units. For example, 500 short tons are the equivalent of 453.6 metric tons (500 short tons x 0.9071847 metric tons/short ton = 453.6 metric tons). In the metric system of weights and measures, the names of multiples and subdivisions of any unit may be derived by combining the name of the unit with prefixes, such as deka, hecto, and kilo, meaning, respectively, 10, 100, 1,000, and deci, centi, and milli, meaning,...
Page 11 - The net weight of various foods in the same size can or glass jar will vary with the density of the food.
Page 3 - Unit 1 fluid ounce • 1 liquid pint •• 1 liquid quart 1 gallon 1...
Page 82 - The instructions for reporting unstemmed cigar-leaf of the domestic types require that dealer* and manufacturers indicate the weight basis on which the tobacco is reported, namely, farm-sales weight, marked weight, or sweated weight. The stocks are converted to the farm-sales-weight equivalent on the basis of average factors reflecting the percentage reported each quarter in each of...
Page 59 - The first figures in this column represent the diameter of the container and the second figure the height. The first digit in each number represents inches and the second two digits sixteenths of an inch, ie, 307 is three and seven-sixteenths inches, Source - National Canners Association • • Total : capacity : avoir, ozs.: of water : at 68° F.
Page 9 - See footnotes at end of table. Continued — See footnotes at end of table. Continued...
Page 16 - Dressed meat equivalent (carcass weight) for beef, veal, lamb and mutton, and pork is defined as follows : Beef: Weight of the dressed carcass with kidney and suet in. Veal: Weight of dressed carcass with hide off and kidney and suet in. Lamb and mutton: Weight of dressed carcass with kidney and suet in. Pork: Weight of the dressed carcass with head off and kidney and leaf fat out.
Page 52 - Peanut brittle Peanut or nut roll bar Novelty chocolate bars : Almond Cereal Peanut Miscellaneous candy: Chocolate Nonchocolate Unspecified Chewing gum Chocolate, sweetened cooking Cocoa, beverage powder (military) Fruit peel, candied Popcorn, candied...

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