Lad (unit)

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Lad was a measure of volume in the United States of America . The measure was based on the type of grain and therefore fluctuated.

  • 1 lad = 1000 quarters
  • 1 lad = 10,000 bushels = 352.42 cubic meters for barley
  • 1 lad = 15,000 bushels = 528.63 cubic meters for oats
  • 1 lad = 8,571 bushels = 302.06 cubic meters for rice and rye
  • 1 lad = 8000 bushels = 281.94 cubic meters for wheat

literature

  • Peter Kurzwell: The Vieweg unit lexicon. Friedrich Vieweg and Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-528-06987-2 , p. 226.
  • Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr: Old measures, coins and weights: a lexicon . Licensed edition of the Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-411-02148-9 , p. 156 .