A bushel is determined by weight not by the number. The weight for a bushel of pears is 50 pounds and a bushel of peaches is 48 pounds.
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A bushel is a measure of weight (53 pounds) a quart is a measure of volume. The two units can not be directly equated.
In home canning this can depend.You can get 12 quarts of peaches out 1 bushel. A bushel of tomatoes weighs 53 pounds and will fill about 22 quart bottles whether you bottle them as tomatoes, or juice them.
There are 9.3 quarts in a peck.
A bushel is 32 dry quarts. Note that a dry quart is a unit of volume that is about 16% larger than the more familiar liquid quart; 1.101 liters versus 0.946 liters.
In home canning this can depend.You can get 12 quarts of peaches out 1 bushel. A bushel of tomatoes weighs 53 pounds and will fill about 22 quart bottles whether you bottle them as tomatoes, or juice them.
From USDA website:CRUSHED TOMATOESWITHOUT ADDED LIQUIDA high-quality product, ideally suited for use in soups, stews, and casseroles.QuantityAn average of 22 pounds is needed per canner load of 7 quarts; an average of 14 fresh pounds is needed per canner load of 9 pints. A bushel weighs 53 pounds and yields 17 to 20 quarts of crushed tomatoes-an average of 2-3/4 pounds per quart.
six --OR-- If you are talking about a strictly volumetric conversion, there are 32 quarts in a bushel. This would be the case if you had one bushel of dried, shelled field corn, for example.
The origin of Basketball is actually a Canadian Sport with peach baskets from 1891, so 118 years old as of 2009
. . . is that a bushel of feathers, a bushel of cotton, a bushel of wheat, or a bushel of lead pellets? (A bushel is a volume, not a weight.)