There may or may not be a Christmas nut.

Here is #15:

Be careful.

>>The bottle was $1.05, and the cork was $0.05 - both of which seem extremely expensive considering you could get land for $7.50 an acre.

Bottle and cork costs aside, the whiskey, apparently, was free, very free, else I'd have risen sooner to take a crack at this nut. Nice one, HungLikeJesus. :)

Good point.

So that's 0.14 acres for a bottle and 0.0027 acres for a cork.

How far will an acre take you in Zen's hired team?

Good point. Land was cheap and everything else was expensive. I think that led directly to the collapse of the housing bubble.

Interthread drift

Good King Mental Nut looked out on the feast of Stephen...

Tomorrow's nut today!

Why not?

"all sold their corn at the same prices" ... same price per bushel or same price for a year's production of corn regardless of volume?

"each received the same amount of money for his corn" ... same as each other, or the same meaning "same as previously mentioned".

Either of these allows a solution.

Or it could be that A really sucks at business and/or maths.

Or they're running a co-op. Damn commies.

hence the mental nut which needs cracking, so get cracking!

Farm subsidies.

Next question?

A was using little bushels, B medium and C giant bushels.

Or maybe A's bushels weren't very full, etc.

I was here on time, no clue. Slept on it, no clue. How about this: A's corn was popped popcorn, B's corn was fresh corn, and C's corn was dried corn. The different *densities* would account for the differing volumes. This presumes that the corn was selling for the same price per pound (?). Because it seems that the corn isn't selling for the same price per bushel (volume).

Somehow, different numbers of bushels are worth equal amounts of money. What varies? The quality of the corn? The quantity of the corn? Wait. Perhaps they all gave their corn away for free, and consequently each received the same amount of money, zero.

That's my answer. The corn was worthless, and they're taking it to the town corn dump. They're being paid *nothing*, equally.