Grain Value Tables

Hardcover, 255 pages, 5x7.75 in - 13x19 cm.

No dust jacket. Covers stained and worn, corners rubbed through to boards. Spine bumped at head and heel, with small closed tear at heel. Edges tanned, bottom edge soiled. 1.5 cm (.5 in) closed tears to front endpapers, inscription by previous owner faint on front pastedown. Endpapers lightly soiled, pages age-tanned with very minor loss to bottom fore edge corners, many pages bear tidelines.

In this book, Edward Douglas Davis provides reference charts for determining grain value at various bushel weights. The volume opens with an explanation of how to read the charts, as well as how to measure the contents of grain bins, corn cribs, and coal bins. The book closes with a brief advertisement offering Davis’s other chart publications (for figuring interest, determining the number of days between two dates, calculating foreign exchange rates, etc.).