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ENGINEERING ON THE FARM 



Table Showing the Equivalent of the Fraction of an Inch 



in Decimals of a Foot 



Table for Reducing Decimals of a Foot to Inches 

 and the Nearest % Inch 



Example: To reduce .35 of a foot to inches, follow the .3 line to 

 column headed .05, which gives the equivalent in inches — 4>£. 



AMERICAN USAGE 



Surveyors* chain. Unfortunately in this country it has 

 become the custom to use certain units for specific purposes. 

 While they are all reducible to a common unit, the foot, 



