The farmer's and corn-buyer's assistant : containing I. Tables wherein the value of any quantity of corn, from a Bushel to twenty Comb, in what is termed Full, or Bare Measure, (at any Rate per Comb, from Three Shillings, increasing by Three-Halfpence per Comb, to Thirty Shillings) may be had in less than a quarter of a minute. II. Tables for Malt-Retailers; in which is shewn the Value of any Quantity of Malt, from a Comb to a Quarter of a Peck, and from Sixteen Shillings per Comb, decreasing by the most usual Prices, to Four Shillings. III. Tables wherein is shown the value of any number of yards or pounds, (from One to One Hundred) from One Farthing per Yard or Pound to Three Shillings, increasing at One Farthing per Yard or Pound. The Whole calculated and examined- by Richard Harvey, School-Master, in Bungay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harvey, Richard, school-master.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ready-reckoners.

Grain trade--Great Britain--Tables.

Grain trade.

Weights and measures--Great Britain--Tables.

Weights and measures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv,[164]p. )

Other Title:

Farmer's and corn-buyer's assistant

Place of Publication:

Norwich : printed for the author - by John Crouse; and sold by him; - also by Longman, Crowder, and Wilson and Fell, in Pater-Noster-Row, London; - by Rogers in Bury, Smitheman in Braintree, Keymer in Colchester, Keymer in Hadleigh, Shave in Ipswich, and Eaton in Yarmouth, 1764.

Notes:

Pp.vii-xiv contain a list of subscribers, and the final leaf bears an advertisement for Harvey's school in Bungay, and a disclaimer by the printer for the errors in the tables, which are corrected in MS. by the author.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T110069.

OCLC:

642275760