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land to be measured on every farm in the County and sometimes the farms I had to measure would be twenty miles or more from home.
When we first started, our way of measuring was crude. We had a wire rod attached to the left front wheel of our car in such a way that be tying a red cloth on the rod we could sit in the sear and drive along the edge of the field and count each time the wheel went around. The wheel was calibrated in so many feet and inches. This was the way we got our first measurements.
The next year we had odometers welded to the axel in such a way that a wire could be attached to the wheel and each time the wheel turned around the counting was automatic.
This worked slick. In fact it was so easy that the next year the Gov't. made us use walking A.'s with the A we had one hand free to fight mosquitoes so the next year this was discontinued in favor of the wheel. This took both hands to push so we were at the mercy of |