One cartload of the enemy's provisions is equivalent to twenty of one's own, and likewise a single
picul of his provender is equivalent to twenty from one's own store.
For example, in April of that year, around one month before the manufacturing season was due to commence, Maclaine Watson reported that although the NHM Factorij had intervened in the market to the extent of buying some 15,000
picul [one
picul equals 61.
A circular has been received by the last mail from Batavia, signed by fifteen of the most influential firms in that city, stating that, in consequence of numerous complaints of sugars made by the so-called centri-fugal process, and shipped from Sourabaya and the other ports at the eastern end of the island, rapidly deteriorating in quality, even during the voyage to this country, they have united to establish a difference in price of 2 florins per
picul of 133 lbs.
Each maka'ainana laborer was expected to carry as much as 1
picul (or 133 1/3 pounds) of sandalwood.
Rancho Agua Fria picot (h) Chilocoyo/Chignautla/Contra picot Santa Cruz Montegrande/Tecuantepec Zozocolco Mapacoyan (La Garita)/San Miguel Tlalpualan Reyes de Vallarta/Ayotoxco/ Ixtacamaxtitlan/Las Chapas Cuautepec picote Tetelcingo picol Suchitlan
picul Suchitlan San Miguel Totocuitlapilco picol San Nicolas San Pedro Tultepec de Quiroga Chilacachapa
picul Coatepec Costales pico?
In response to media enquiries on the recent supply of live pigs from the Mainland, the bureau said 3,889 live pigs were imported today, and the average wholesale price ranged between $1,650 and $1,830 per
picul.
5 thangs of paddy have the same mass as a
picul, 60 kg.
His four sons imitated him and, since the five of them occupied high posts that earned each the maximum salary of two thousand
piculs a year, he was called - punning on his family name, Shi, which also means "
picul" (equivalent to around 30 kg under the Former Han) - "Lord of Ten Thousand
Piculs.
England is identified as the biggest single supplier--19,280 tons in 1903 (or 3,110,000
picul) at a cost of 16 guilders the quintal or 10 guilders the
picul.
The Sango Gold is of a very superior quality and bears a higher price than most of the other Gold hereabouts; a
Picul of Gold Dust is in excess of 1,100 Bunkals, one Bunkal is the weight of two Spanish Dollars.
Warren concludes that 'the collecting and curing of a
picul of tripang or a
picul of mother-of-pearl shell required the average annual labour of two men for tripang and four men for mother-of-pearl'.
Carletti quotes a price of 90 tael per
picul, while Jan Huig van Linschoten indicates 140-145 Pesos de a ocho (approximately 100 tael) per
picul for medium-quality and 150 to 170 Pesos for high-quality spun raw silk.
