This "cwt" is not 100 pounds but 112 pounds, one twentieth of the English ton (our long ton) of 2,240 pounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [All About Coffee] Reference

Most standard sizes of steel coils and cut sheets are sold by weight, typically the price is quoted per hundredweight (which is 100 pounds and abbreviated as "cwt").    From Wordnik.com.  [Purchasing - Top Stories] Reference

The yield of straw is from 15 to 20 cwt. per acre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference

Thus 2 cwt. of basic slag is equal to 1 cwt. of super.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference

About 9,000 cwt. of it is exported to Bombay annually.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Arabia] Reference

It is often applied at the rate of 2 or 3 cwt. per acre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference

One to 1-1/2 cwt. nitrate of soda as a top-dressing in early spring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference

To every 1 cwt. of soap, 28 lb. of silicate of soda solution, 32-1/2° Tw.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Handbook of Soap Manufacture] Reference

On strong clay soils this quantity may be judiciously increased up to 2 cwt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference

Chemical analysis has shown that 100 cwt. of common farmyard manure contain about.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference

Third year, 4 cwt. basic slag or 3 cwt. superphosphate and 1 cwt. nitrate of soda.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference

An ox, therefore, will make 8 tons of fresh dung in six months, using 32 cwt. of litter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference

The superphosphate is best drilled in with the seed, in quantities varying from 3 to 5 cwt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference

In 1793 the average price of sugar, wholesale, was 66s. 7 1/2d. per cwt., exclusive of duty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King] Reference

From 1 to 2 cwt. of the muriate or sulphate is a common amount, and from 6 to 8 cwt. of kainit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference

Each tile one foot in length, and the one and one-half-inch pipes weighing 16 cwt. per thousand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference

September 1860, was made from 213 cannons taken at Sebastopol, is 52½ ft. high, and weighs 2165 cwt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South of France—East Half] Reference

On either side there are six main suspensions of 25 cwt. stranded steel cable known as "C" suspensions.    From Wordnik.com.  [British Airships, Past, Present, and Future] Reference

They were recast, with 64 cwt. of fresh metal, in 1735, when the peal was brought up to its present number.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See] Reference

Downton Agricultural College, recommends that it should be applied at the rate of from 6 to 10 cwt. per acre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference

Paris at about 4s. per cwt, two pails, or rather zinc or galvanised iron buckets, one of them containing water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference

Afterwards the word was also used of the amount of coal a keel would carry, i.e. 8 chaldrons, or 21 tons 4 cwt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois] Reference

Calculating that 6 cwt. was the average weight of the cattle, this will show that 33,783 cattle were sent away from.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cattle and Cattle-breeders] Reference

From 1 to 1-1/4 cwt. may be recommended as a suitable quantity for corn crops which are otherwise liberally manured.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference

The bridle, consisting of 25 cwt. steel cable, is attached here and connected to the forepart of the skids of the car.    From Wordnik.com.  [British Airships, Past, Present, and Future] Reference

This substitution of dry plaster of Paris (price about 4s. per cwt.) for sand is one of the very best things ever tried.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference

From 1 cwt. and even less, up to 6 cwt. or even more, has been the rate at which it has been commonly applied in the past.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference

These latter are applied to the extent of about 10 cwt., and consist of superphosphate, dissolved bones, and potash salts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference

So early as 1802, Lower Canada exported 1,010,033 bushels of wheat, besides 28,301 barrels of flour, and 22,051 cwt. of biscuit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference

During the first month (August) the percentage was increased from .01 to .18 (equal to about 5 cwt. of nitrate of potash per acre).    From Wordnik.com.  [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference

In 1711 Richard Phelps, a well-known founder, supplied an estimate for the re-casting of a cracked bell (the fourth) weighing 15 cwt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference

Either farmyard manure or sea-weed is applied at the rate of 25 to 30 tons per acre, supplemented by 8 to 12 cwt. of artificial manures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference

If 4 cwt. be added for the hose and tools, it will be found quite as heavy as two fast horses can manage, for a distance under six miles, with five firemen and a driver.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction] Reference

The pipes were laid much in the same way as cast-iron pipes are laid; they were each 9 ft. 9½ ins. long and weighed each about 12 cwt., and were handled by ordinary tackle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference

Twenty tons of farm-yard manure contain 32 cwt. of mineral matters, while the average crops of a six course-shift contain only 1088 lbs., or less than one-third of this quantity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Agricultural Chemistry] Reference