THE COMPARATIVE WEIGHT OF FLOUR AND BREAD.
A pint of flour weighs fourteen ounces, or two ounces less than a pound.
A quart (or half-quartern) weighs one pound and three-quarters, and will, make a loaf of two pounds and three ounces.
A quartern (or half-gallon) weighs three pounds and a half, and will make a loaf of four pounds and six ounces weight.
A gallon (or half-stone) of flour contains seven pounds. This will produce eight pounds and three-quarters of bread.
A stone (or peck) weighs fourteen pounds, and the product in bread will be seventeen pounds and a half.
Two pecks (or half a bushel) will weigh twenty-eight pounds, and make thirty-five pounds of bread.
A bushel (or four pecks) contains fifty-six pounds of flour, which ought to produce seventy pounds of bread.
A sack (or five bushels) should weigh two hundred and eighty pounds, and the product in bread should be three hundred and fifty pounds.