
Computing Seed 
Requirements 7 
Per Acre 7 
Seed specialists frequently 
have occasion to compute 
problems. This chart will 
prove to be a great help in 3 
making computations in- 
volving “pounds of seed per 
acre.’ The chart gives the 
total number of pounds of 
seed to be used on any plot 
of ground without any 
“longhand” figuring what- 
ever. 
For example, let us sup- 
pose that you want to sow 
500 pounds of seed per acre. 
Let us also suppose that the 
plot is very small—only .025 
acre. How many pounds of 
seed should be used? 
Run aé straight line 
through the .025, column A, 
and the 500, column C, and 
the intersection with column 
cd 
B gives the answer as 12.5 
pounds. One of the dotted 
lines drawn across the chart 
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POUNDS PER ACRE 
shows how it is done. 
The other dotted line 
across the chart shows that 
if there are 2.5 acres, and 
that if you are told to sow 
500 pounds per acre, the an- 
swer is 1250 pounds of seed. 
The range of the chart is — 
from .01 acre to 10 acres, and 
one pound per acre to 6000 
pounds per acre. However, 
by keeping tab on the ci- 
phers this chart is easily ap- ; 
plicable to ANY number of 
acres and ANY number of 
pounds—per acre. Thus if 
the plot is 25 acres,—12,500 
pounds; 250 acres,—125,000 
pounds; etc. With the aid of 
this chart you will be able to 
quickly do problems that 
might produce headaches 
and consume much time — _ 
when performed by the old 
longhand method. 

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