cavans

At a guess, however, I should suppose that about a million cavans, each of which, one with another, weighs about a China pecul, or 133 1/3 lbs, is an average yearly export, should the Government not prohibit the article from being exported for a longer period than usual, which is annually regulated by the scarcity or abundance of food in the country.

Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850 Robert MacMicking

I will mix one hundred cavans of husked rice with one hundred cavans of unhusked rice (palay).

Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

A hundred cavans of ordinary province rice will usually produce 85 per cent. of clean white, and about 10 per cent. of broken rice, which can be sold at about half the price of the ordinary quality: the remaining 5 per cent. is wasted in cleaning.

Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850 Robert MacMicking

Fifty cavans of cleaned rice per person seems to us too much.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 16 of 55 1609 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century Emma Helen Blair 1884

Fifty cavans of cleaned rice per person seems to us too much.

History of the Philippine Islands Antonio de Morga 1597

[370] The Augustinians received also one-fourth part of the tribute from the villages while they were building churches; and 200 pesos fuertes [i.e., ten-real pieces] and 200 cavans [the cavan equals 25 gantas, or 137 Spanish libras] of cleaned rice for four religious who heard confessions during Lent.

History of the Philippine Islands Antonio de Morga 1597

Rene Enriquez, a farmer-leader in the province said the "tungro" infestation was too much, coupled by rat attacks, that some farmers only harvested at most five cavans from a hectare of riceland this season compared with a hundred they harvested during normal cropping seasons.

unknown title 2009

Isolated Benguet town gets 200 cavans of rice for 1st time

WN.com - Photown News 2009

Isolated Benguet town gets 200 cavans of rice for 1st time

WN.com - Photown News 2009

Rene Enriquez, a farmer-leader in the province said the "tungro" infestation was too much, coupled by rat attacks, that some farmers only harvested at most five cavans from a hectare of riceland this season compared with a hundred they harvested during normal cropping seasons.

unknown title 2009