As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
I doubt if most people would know what an acre is any more. The same with miles, as most things are now minutes away. In rural lands though, the acre and mile are the terms by which all life and time is measured.
An acre like a yard is a measurement of creature, as an acre just happened to be the distance a horse could plough in England before it had to be stopped and rested.
This then turned into America being gridded into sections of 640 acres, which is..........yes a mile long and a mile wide of 5280 feet or 1760 yards........I will not get into "rods" which are 16 1/2 feet as that is what my dad was always measuring things in......something like 40 rods is 440 yards, which is a quarter mile, so 160 rods is a mile.
It all measures out and makes as much sense as city blocks or meters. A block I believe is named after a block house as settlements were protected by block houses laid in grid as fortification points against Indian terrorists.
Meanwhile down on the farm........
I found this chart and as it is of great value in saving time in working out math problems, it is easily copy and pasted here in how many plants one can plant in an acre of land, with the plants certain distances apart.
1 foot 43,560
1 1/2 feet 19,360
2 feet 10,890
2 1/ 2 feet 6,969
3 feet 4,840
4 feet 2,722
5 feet 1,742
6 feet 1,210 Distance apart.
No. of Plants.
9 feet ..... 537
12 feet 302
15 feet 193
18 feet 134
21 feet 98
24 feet 75
27 feet 59
30 feet 48
I just noticed that Thomas Bridgeman of 1850 AD in the year of our Lord, charted this all out not in base factor 10 in the decimal system of reckoning, but in this gridding it is base 3.
Base three being important as it was the kings yard which was from the tip of his nose to the tip of his thumb, and one yard had 3 feet in it, and each 12 inch foot, was divisible by 3........even if the fractions of the 12 inches are all divided up by base 4 in even numbers.
Yes I am sure you never thought about any of this, no more than Sumerians had like base 6 in their numbers.........do not recall if they had 6 fingers and toes or whatever before the Deluge.
Any way, now you can reckon things on your property.
36 sections to a township in America.......am trying to compute the verbiage.....yeah I know that is not the correct word......of how long an acre is...........pints a pound the world around, half past a monkey's ass and a quarter to his balls............640 acres to a section.........160 to a quarter section.........40 to a quarter of a quarter section...........quarter section is 440 yards long and wide.......I should just look it up as I just did, and an acre is 4840 square yards........pretty Euclidean number and is why things always look Golden Spiral in the sacred geometry in things........4840...........
Be ba do da do da do....................I am thinking...........calculating.........I hate math.......is the biggest waste of space since Maya Angalou natterings.............
A quarter is 40 acres..........440 yards.......1320 feet.........long and wide.........10 acres to a quarter of a quarter of a quarter.......problem is thing will not divide by four..............so a squared 69.56 is close........oh I get it now........an acre is PI..........by that I mean 4840 is not a square, but a fiction like how tired a horse gets ploughing as it's footie prints are not capable of being rectified from the distance of the king's nose to the king's thumb to a horse's gait.............69.574....69.572....69.5705 equals 4840.05447025..............horses and king and math and things.............69.57015 equals 4840.0057710225.................so 69.57015 squared is how one arrives in long math of a supposed squared yards 4840 in which you are cheated out of .57015 yards.....that is why it never made sense in a rod is 5 1/2 yards or 16 1/2 feet, as you can never convert base 3 to halves...........yes you can do 36 inches is a yard, but not a rod...........198 inches divided by 36 is 5.5 yards.........198 is 16.5 eet.......both of which is a rod.
40 rods long in a quarter mile.........20 rods in an 1/8 mile.........but only 10 acres in a quarter of a 40 acre land........208.71045 feet....yes is not that lovely in square even numbers do not match an acre like meters to inches.......horse footies and king's noses.........so an acre is almost 208 feet 9 inches long.
So a Shire horse could pull 208 feet 9 inches short before being blown.........all of which has nothing to do how many plants one can sow or plant into an acre..........it does fill up space though and confuses people to wonder if they are brighter than a primate in a zoo or not.
I could have looked all of this up if I had internet access.
It just means that at 6 feet apart, a cantaloupe will be 1210 plants per acre, and if you raise 4 per plant, that is 4840 melons.........at 2 dollars a head, you have 9680 dollars........but that is counting your melons before they hatched........as dealers sort by size.......coyotes and deer eat them....bugs eat them........all sorts of things destroy them..........but that is a nice poverty wage........but you could never sell that many melons locally........just figuring.
All I wanted to do is post some numbers and read my book.
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