AERIAL FARM SURVEY
BUYING LAND FROM THE AIR. Aeroplanes are becoming more and more popular with farmers, writes an American correspondent. They are using them in their dusting and spraying operations. Some are seeding with them. Others herd ducks with them. The latest, however, is to examine soils with them. Sounds a bit foolish, but it isn’t. It has been found that if you look at a piece of land from an elevation oi 5000 feet or more you can see things that are invisible from the ground.
We know of several farmers who have mapped their whole ranches by taking photographs from the air. They are, of course, “drawn” perfectly to scale and give a lot of valuable information not found on regular maps. Some farmers will not buy a farm without first seeing an aerial photograph taken as the ground begins to dry out. They want to note the white spots and then find out what causes these white spots. Often they spell poor ground. This practice makes the phrase a "bird’s eye view” mean something.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 October 1938, Page 3
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