From: Pav <bobhog@pin.co.nz>
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 12:42:56 +1200
To: <BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: Do Bees want various cell sizes?

At 30/07/02 18:52:00, Chris wrote:

>Try bigger skeps...his were over a bushel whereas
>Wildman a century earlier recommended only a peck.

Oh quaint. If it's not folk trying to drag me back to the 19th century with farenheit and gallons (and thanks Barry for providing a metric conversion in one of your recent posts - it was appreciated), now Chris is using even more archeaic measures on me. If you're trying to make me feel youthful the flattery is appreciated, but the reflection off the top of my head stops me from being too taken in.

A peck i know is a quick smooch, and i've heard one shouldn't hide your light under a bushel, but how this relates to skep volume is beyond me.
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Before i got to send the above, Erik asked (rather more politely than my rudeness, causing me to trash-bin the above):

>what's a bushel and what's a peck.

This is why the metric system was devised - to eliminate random measures that have no consistent relation one to another - and Chris graciously dragged his terminology into early last century.

>A bushel, as everybody knows, is 2219.36 cubic inches.
>There are 4 pecks to a bushel.

Now only the 'rev heads' around here still talk in cubic inches, and i was none the wiser (and so i trawled the trashbin for your reading pleasure...).

For anyone else that is still confused, i did some homework:

2219.36 cubic inches would be a cube 13.04395 inches on a side (slightly larger than a cubic foot), or 33.131633 cm on a side, which is 36369 cc or 36.369 litres.

What that is in gallons i have no clue, and no intention to figure it out - it would be
different depending on US gallons vs Imperial gallons anyway. Vive la system metric.

-Pav, flogging a lame horse again.