USEFUL HINTS FOR MEASURING LAND.
Almost every farmer has some way of measuring land, and the most comanon is to step off five paces for a rod and call 60 by 65 paces an acre. For ordinary purposes this mode will answer, but when the exact measurement of a piece of land is desired it cannot be depended upon as being accurate. A light pole just sixteen and a half .feet long is a cheap and convenient measure, but a four-rod tape line is much better. An exact acre can be found by the following table of distances :— A plot of ground 80 yards wide by i t 69 and one-half yards long contains 1 acre. A plot of ground 5 yards wide by -258 yards long contains 1 acre. A plot of ground 10 feet wide by 4tB4_yar-dB long contains 1 acre. A plot of ground 40 yards wide by 121 yards long contains 1 acre. A plot of ground 229 feet long by 198 feet wide contains 1 acre. A plst«f ground 440 feet long by ■99 feet wide contains 1 acre. A plot of ground 110 feet wide by -395 feet long contains 1 acre. A .plot of ground 240 feet long by 181 J feet wide contains 1 acre. One acre contains 150 square rods, 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. One rod contains 20.25 squareyards, •572.25 spuare feet.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1086, 13 June 1882, Page 4
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234USEFUL HINTS FOR MEASURING LAND. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1086, 13 June 1882, Page 4
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