The Writer's Desk Book / Being a Reference Volume upon Questions of Punctuation, Capitalization, Spelling, Division of Words, Indention, Spacing, Italics, Abbreviations, Accents, Numerals, Faulty Diction, Letter Writing, Postal Regulations, Etc.

by William Dana Orcutt

• 7000 grains (gr.) = 1 POUND (lb.)

Also

• 16 drams (dr.) = 1 ounce (oz.)
• 16 ounces = 1 POUND (lb.)
• 14 pounds = 1 stone
• 8 stone = 1 hundredweight (cwt.)
• 20 hundredweights = 1 ton

3. MEASURES OF CAPACITY

• 4 gills = 1 pint
• 2 pints = 1 quart
• 4 quarts = 1 GALLON
• 2 gallons = 1 peck
• 4 pecks = 1 bushel
• 8 bushels = 1 quarter
• 36 bushels = 1 chaldron

4. MEASURES OF LAND

• 40 square perches = 1 rood
• 4 roods = 1 acre

For certain special purposes, the following are also authorized by the Act of 1878 or by Order in Council under the Act:

1. For weighing gold and silver and precious stones: {155}

The Troy ounce, equal in weight to 480 grains. In dealing with quantities less than an ounce, the ounce is divided decimally, not into grains. Larger quantities than an ounce are stated in ounces. There is no Troy pound.