| Show DIVIDING FARMS Zconotor In AppllDK Geometrical lAwa ID L ylc Out Hilda The former ay of dividing forma is I as follows The cud lies to tho road with banding close to the highs high-s SIllY3h1 Jt 4bidJnto J IW IWll 7 4 + eqnaTpoffiom Tjy alone rounlURbaiK to the Wt il I lot jmsturi and l 51tie at tho back of thefurin Oiiritlu reiilu tho loon are nearly square K < lit of about 29 or 80 rods upon u si Jo It gives easy anA an-A 50 RaDS D I a c THE ORTHODOX DIVISION cess to Imlhldl11 held but according to uu Ohio Tanner turn spiudcut without with-out taking any note wbitovcr of ceo nouiicil working Tho Idea of applyiuR tho plain self demonstrating laws of arithmetic and geometry lo tin plowing and coHlvauo of fields 1 ii a rrccnt ono Tljo correspondent in question gives din grains Bud discuses the lepers resulting from failure to rtcogulzo plain geometrical geomet-rical fact iu tho layhft out anil cultivation cultiva-tion of fields 1Ia writes illustrate I Riv Iwo ID1Dtn In Fill 1 A D 0 D rrprov nt n field 50 rods square in which the trampled ell IIII < > nol uro hovsn at mil as furrow Tho same letters lu Iig 2 bow n field twice nfl long and onohnlf at wide drawn to the name fcain nf 8J rods to tbo Inch I crow it to this proportion Instead of 100 rods lonq in order to Pave Space i und thinking perhaps the matter might bo easier comprehended In this case the tarns in plowiaR saved would be but onohnlf or 600 and the proportion of trampled ground wouhl to more than if llio Held wan onethird narrower nar-rower In Fig 2 tho letters D O r F show how there would bo n raving m nsliiK the disk harrow which IB generally gener-ally worked in narrow IIInds to WHO tho annoyance nod eramplllil attending tbo abrupt turning of the team as lu drilling drill-ing Of conrso I need not tell tho intd ligont reader Unit by doubling the length A r 6C B C RODS AS FCOHOU1CAL DIVISION of tho field onohalf tho turning la I also saved in harrowing drilling cultivating cultivat-ing luowinff arid reaping Nino tenths of the farmer do not seem to realise and praotioo the truths I am trying to elucidate If they had why do they out up a piece of mowing ground Into half days work often cutting cut-ting oil a chunk tho short way of t the field nod sometimes nlllklng more than a tbooud nllnleery torn In mowing mow-ing a 20 acre field f And the amo is often douo In plowing This has Leon done over and over again in several 20 aero fields that I pF occasionally In the baying beaten Common sense would say go around the whole Lot if It limit bo split up into four acre jobs why not doll lengthwise The name disregard of mathematical principles is I everywhere to bo wen as fences are removed and farms thrown Into ono or two largo fields Instead of taking advantage of starting at tho barn und plowing or cultivating 100 rods and back and losing no ibis in going to and from barn to Hold most farms which I see Pro farmed on tho old checkerboard principle and cart > palhs aro maintained to reach fields which might have anti end abutting upon tho highway or at the barnyard |
