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Show Measurmeots Must Conform to AAA Wheat organizations in 11 districts of Utah, organized under the AAA, are measuring wheat fields and contract con-tract acreage fields to determine compliance com-pliance with wheat contracts, reports LeRoy C. Funk, state wheat agent. A plane table with a circular protractor, pro-tractor, a straight edge to take angle measurements and a semi-circular protractor to read slope measurements, measure-ments, are being used- The length of the sides or the perimeter of the field is being taken by using a bicycle wheel that has been calibrated over a measured mile course. After a supervisor has taken the angle measurements and the length of the sides of the field in wheel revolutions, revo-lutions, the information is reported to a draughtsman who plots the field to scale and calculates the acreage. Supervisors are finding this type of land measurement both accurate and speedy. "Any method less accurate than the one in use would not be ac--eptable to the wheat farmers of the stale. Particularly is this true of those farmers who may need to make acreage adjustments as a result of the survey," says Mr. Funk. According to the wheat contract, a eooporator must plant a minimum of "54 per cent of his average acreage to comply with his contract. If he does not he is not entitled to payment. Wheat cooperators are demanding accurate measurement of the wheat and contracted acreages. The measuring meas-uring method used by the AAA w practicable and acceptable. |