Note 1 — AUTHOR’S PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION
Bernard Miall translation
Reducing the above quantities to bushels of 56 lbs. weight, the cereal harvest is estimated at: wheat, 230,000,000 bushels; oats, 33,000,000; maize, 240,000,000. The metric ton is 34·5 lbs. lighter than the English.