Conque

The conque was a French measure of weight for grain . As the old Basque ( Bayonne ) measure, it was a different size in almost every village. It could also be used as a measure of salt .

• 1 Conque = ½ sack = 2070 Parisian cubic inches = 54 pounds

literature

• Jurende's patriotic pilgrim: business and entertainment book for all provinces of the Austrian imperial state: consecrated to all friends of culture from the teaching, military and nutritional class, especially to all nature and fatherland friends. Volume 21, Winiker, Brünn 1834, p. 51.
• Johann Georg Krünitz , Heinrich Gustav Flörke, Friedrich Jakob Floerke, Johann Wilhelm David Korth: Economic Encyclopedia or General System of the Land, House and State Economy: In alphabetical order. Volume 45, Joachim Pauli, Berlin 1789, p. 729.