Quintal

All the marchandise which they sell or buy within the sayd citie, they bargaine for at so many serafines per quintal, which is ❋ Unknown (2003)

The Crown of Victory which the figure holds in her hands weighs one hundred quintals (a quintal is a hundred-weight). ❋ Various (N/A)

What is there called the quintal weighs from and hundred a fifty to two hundred Paris pounds, or a hundred and seventy-five Paris pounds at a medium, which reduces the price of the hundred weight English to about eight shillings sterling, not a fourth part of what is commonly paid for the brown or muskavada sugars imported from our colonies, and not a sixth part of what is paid for the finest white sugar. ❋ Unknown (1909)

A quintal is a unit of measurement equal for growers to 100 pounds 45 kilograms.

But the city of Rouen levies on it a duty of twenty sols the quintal, which is very sensible in its price, brings it dearer to the bleacheries near Paris, to those of Beauvais, Laval, etc., and to the glass works, and encourages them to give a preference to the potash or soude of other nations. ❋ Thomas Jefferson (1784)

L'Orient and Havre, varies from sixteen florins to twenty-four florins the French quintal, which is equal to one hundred and nine pounds our weight. ❋ Thomas Jefferson (1784)

Rouen levies on it a duty of twenty sols the quintal, which is very sensible in its price, brings it dearer to the bleacheries near Paris, to those of Beauvais, Laval, &c. and to the glass-works, and encourages them to give a preference to the potash or soude of other nations. ❋ Thomas Jefferson (1784)

What is there called the quintal, weighs from a hundred and fifty to two hundred Paris pounds, or a hundred and seventy-five Paris pounds at a medium, which reduces the price of the hundred weight English to about eight shillings sterling; not a fourth part of what is commonly paid for the brown or muscovada sugars imported from our colonies, and not a sixth part of what is paid for the finest white sugar. ❋ Adam Smith (1756)

The state government is planning to propose MSP for potato at Rs 305 per quintal, which is Rs 30 higher than last year to protect the farmers 'interests, they said. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Pawar also said that the Government has already fixed the fair and remunerative price (FRP) of sugarcane for 2009-10 sugar season at Rs. 129.84 per quintal, which is more than 50 percent higher than the cost of production and transportation incurred, on an average, by the sugarcane farmers in India. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The government announced an FRP of Rs 129.84 a quintal, which is 20.4 per cent more than the statutory minimum price (SMP) of Rs 107.76 a quintal fixed earlier this year.

"Potatoes are fetching record prices, between Rs. 2,000 and Rs. 2,400 per quintal, which is almost double last year's rates," Bodh told IANS. ❋ Unknown (2009)

She is requesting funding to buy the following products: 2 quintales of American rice (a quintal is a weight measurement equivalent to 46 kilograms) at 40 US dollars each, 1 quintal of beans at 40 dollars US each, 90 pounds of beef at 1.30 dollars US each, 100 pounds of chicken at 1.45 US dollars each, 2 quintales of sugar at 30.50 dollars US each, 2 quintales of flour at 40 dollars US each, 2 bidones (a large jar) of oil at 35 dollars US each, 2 cases of La Lechera evaporated milk at 40 dollars US each, and 3 cases of eggs at 9 dollars US each. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Farmers have thrived thanks to cotton prices hovering at an all time high 66 of around Rs. 4,500 per quintal. ❋ Unknown (2011)

MSPs for wheat have been raised from Rs. 640 per quintal to Rs. 1,100 currently. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Gijs Gieskes criou tijolos em forma de Game Boy e colocou-os no seu quintal deixando a natureza tomar o seu rumo. ❋ Red (2008)

Moreover, his produce fetched him a price of Rs. 2,000 per quintal, as against Rs. 1,400 earlier. ❋ Udit Misra (2010)