344 THE YOUNG FARMER'S MANUAL. 



ing, in order to measure on a line at a right angle to the outsides 

 or margin of the plot to be plowed, nail two narrow strips of 

 thin boards together at a right angle, and place them on a car 

 penter's steel square on a high stool or box, or on three stakes 

 driven in the ground, and place one arm of the square parallel 

 with the margin of the field, and if the other points to the centre, 

 E or K, as the station may be, commence measuring from that 

 point. In about half an hour a field of ordinary size can be laid 

 out and all the stakes stuck, ready for the plow. 





