[Sca-cooks] Volume of a hogshead

[Terry Decker]

All of the Wiki stuff can be changed by making an accepted modification to 
an entry, so it is always open to question.  One of the common assumptions 
is that all English measures are Imperial, but the actual Imperial system is 
a product of the 19th Century.  Weights and measures prior to the 18th 
Century are largely a matter of local acceptance and royal decree. 
Beginning in the 18th Century, the standardization of weights and measures 
became a priority for international trade and is still in progress.

I've been bit by the Imperial measure problem before and it took the better 
part of a day to pull some of the historical answers together.

Bear



> Well, that shows you that you can't always
> trust the answers you find on websites, because
> I cut and pasted my answer from Wikipedia
> and they claimed that it was Imperial measure.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogshead
>
> Huette
>