CHAPTER XLVTII. 



LAND MEASUREMENT AND SURVEYING IN RELATION TO FRUIT 



GROWING. 



By A. H. Haines, P. A. S.I. , Estate Management Department, The Agricultural 

 College, Wye, Kent. 



It is indisputable that every one in any 

 way connected with land should be able 

 to ascertain the area of any portion 

 thereof if required, and consequently a few 

 notes on the subject may be of help. 



First of all we must enquire into what 

 equipment is necessary for the work. In 

 doing so we must not lose sight of the fact 



chain of 100 links (66 feet), and 10 arrows 

 or pins for marking distances. Such a 

 chain will cost from 7/6 to 20/-, according 

 to whether it is made of best cut steel wire 

 or of iron. A lightish chain of not more 

 than, say, 5lbs., will be found best. 



If it be preferred to use a foot chain 

 (this unit of measurement being perhaps 



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that this branch of the work is only a side 

 issue in the ■ profession of fruit-growing, 

 and therefore any considerable outlay of 

 money in apparatus, such as would be used 

 by a surveyor, is not warranted. It will 

 suffice if the fruit grower buys only a 

 iWiT boxwood scale, a Gunter's land 



better understood than the link), it would 

 cost a little more on account of its greater 

 length. But the writer recommends that 

 the first-mentioned land chain shoidd be 

 used for various reasons, not the least of 

 which is the greater facility afforded in the 

 calculation of the area after measurement. 



