If planted in rows or drills two feet apart, three pecks of seeds will be required for an acre; or eighteen quarts will seed this quantity of land, if the rows are two feet and a half apart.
If planted in drills two feet apart, five pecks of seed will be required for an acre; or four pecks for the same quantity of ground, if the rows are two feet and a half apart.
Some of them had no scruples about adding to their incomes by turning corn-dealers, even selling such small quantities as pecks of peas, bushels of rye, and half pecks of oatmeal.
The other workmen were employed in turning up a piece of ground to sow two pecks of good seed wheat on, which came in the Supply.
Two pecks of wheat were drilled into an acre of ground in Arthur's Vale, on the 24th; and on the next day, one acre and a quarter was sown with half a bushel of wheat at a broad cast.
He did but peck, as a bird pecks with his bill, and yet a man dropped dead.
Boys and girls who like to harvest nature's crops are missing a lot of fun besides many pecks of delicious food by neglecting the common edible mushrooms.
Pecks of hard maple seeds are swept up by street cleaners every year on our home street.
That is, as against the customary five pecks of wheat used per acre in humid countries about three pecks or even two pecks should be used on dry-farms.
The larger scallops in the deep water are from 2½ to 2¾ inches in length, taking 5 pecks to open a gallon of "eyes.
On the flats are smaller scallops, from 2 to 2¼ inches in length, of which 6½ pecks are required to make a gallon.
I see a little bird, a yellow bird Perched on her finger; and it pecks at me.
Could the scheme be put in execution, it will, generally speaking, require two men and one horse and cart each day, to pick thirty pecks and carry them to market; and thirty pecks are more than any white man can sell one day with another.
But as I sold them, I made profit each day on thirty pecks of peaches two shillings and nine pence: the reader may plainly see that there could not be any thing done better.
They stewed chickens by the dozen, fried thick slices of ham, made brown ham gravy, boiled pecks of new potatoes, baked pies and cakes and opened cans of pickles.
After supper they put on sheepskin coats and mufflers, filled a bob-sleigh with pecks of potatoes, bags of apples, three small picnic hams, and some canned fruit.
In a dry bin with a wooden floor were hickory nuts and walnuts by the bushel with a fewpecks of butternuts and hazel nuts to furnish variety.
Looking at the shells of hazel-nuts that it has cracked, I believe that it first pecks a hole, and then getting its beak into it crosswise to the natural cleavage of the shell, splits the nut with a sharp rap on the bark.
Those who are sunk in the cares and anxieties of this world's strife, even by a passing glance would gain therefrom enough to clear away some pecks of the cobwebs of mortality.
Then cut down the grass and weeds growing on this spot, and burn large quantities of fuel till the place is extremely hot, throwing on several pecks of hemp-seed.
While he still resists his pecks become slower, the strokes of his spurs feebler, and his springs lower.
When their master has occasion for their labour, he gives them, besides, two pecks of oatmeal a-week, worth about sixteen pence sterling.
Two shillings, therefore, was the price of two bushels and near two pecks of wheat, which in the present times, at three shillings and sixpence the bushel, would be worth eight shillings and ninepence.
But fourteen-pence was in those times the price of a bushel and near two pecks of wheat; which in the present times, at three and sixpence the bushel, would cost five shillings and threepence.
Very soon the two boys, with Dr Budge looking seriously on, had taken Jack out of his basket and put him, in spite of pecks and struggles, into the wicker cage.
This having been given, the two boys set off together the next morning, with Jack in a basket between them making hard angry pecks at the side of it the whole way.
He pecks at her finger, And pecks at her lips, And hovers and flutters, And round her he skips.
Mr. Irvine, the storekeeper, told me there was a difference made when the lispunds and half-lispunds and peckswere summed up.
We don't usually buy meal in wholesale, as the last witness did, but probably in pecks or two pecks or lispunds.
There is also at Grutness an ambiguity about weight -pecks being sold by 'lispund weight,'
Twice it seemed to me that the Zulu's pecks went home upon the giant's breast, but if so they did no harm.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pecks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
