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NEW ENGLAND FARRIER. 



Dec. 



TABLE OF MEASUKES OF LAND. 



This table was prepared with great labor I 

 and care by W. H. Foss, one of the assistants 

 of J. H. Shedd, Civil Engineer of this city, 

 and was electrotyped expressly for the New 

 England Farmer. In the tidy form of our 

 monthly edition it will be very convenient for 

 reference. In his explanation of the table, 

 Mr. Shedd well remarks that "the results of 

 agricultural experiments cannot be compared 

 without a knowledge of the area of the land on 

 which each crop was grown, and as it is not 

 always convenient to plant just an acre, or half 

 or quarter of an acre, it becomes desirable to 

 have at hand such a table as is given above, 

 for reference. It will enable a person to 

 use such a piece of land as he may happen to 



have, fit for the purpose, of any width or 

 length given in the table, with the means to 

 readily ascertain the area in square rods or 

 square acres, in whole numbers and decimals. 

 Tlie table is used in about the same niinner 

 as an ordinary multiplication table, and though 

 it occupies but about half the space usually 

 given to those tables, yet it contains as much 

 information as though made up in the square 

 form. The multiplication of any number in 

 the diagonal rows, into another number 

 less than itself, is a mere repetition of work 

 that has been done before, and tlierefore this 

 table is made up so that the square of a num- 

 ber in the diagonal rows is the first result given 

 in the table opposite or below that number. 



