1 section, 1 mile square 640 acres. 1 quarter section, f mile square . 160 acres. 1 eighth section, f mile long, north and south, f mile wide 80 acres.
A section, f mile square 40 acres.
Most of the Western States have been laid out on this plan by the Government. All titles, except city lots, are established under this survey.
Comparative Laiul Measure.—The standard acre varies in the different countries of the world and allowance must be made for this difference in statements of the products of the land per acre in various countries. The same land measure is used in this country as in England. The com parative size of the different units of land measure of different countries, in square yards, is given as follows: English acre 4,840 sq. yards.
Scotch acre 6,150 sq. yards.
Irish acre 7,840 sq. yards.
Hamburg acre 11,545 sq. yards.
Amsterdam acre 9,722 sq. yards.
Dantzic acre 6,650 sq. yards.
France (hectare) acre 11,960 sq. yards.
Prussia (morgen) acre 3,053 sq. yards.
This difference should be borne in mind in reading of the products per acre in different countries. Our land
measure is that of England.
In Texas, New Mexico, and other Spanish sections of ,the United States, the Spanish land measures are still in use. The unit of length is the vara, equal in Texas to 33i inches, in Cali fornia to 33 inches, and in Mexico to 32.9927 inches. Counting 33i inches to the vara, 108 varas = 100 yards, and 1900.8 varas = 1 mile.
Land is measured in square varas, labors, and square leagues.
1,000,000 sq. varas = 1 labor = 177.136 acres.
25 labors =1 sq.lea. = 4428.4 acres.
1 acre =5645.376 sq. varas.
Dimension.s of Acre Plots. — The following are approximate measures of an acre plot: 3 by 53f rods is / acre.
4 by 40 rods is 1 acre.
5 by 32 rods is 1 acre.
6 by 26f rods is 1 acre.
7 by 22, rods is 1 acre.
8 by 20 rods is 1 acre.
9 by 17-k rods is 1 acre.
10 by 16 rods is 1 acre.
11 by 14N rods is 1 acre.
12 by 13f rods is 1 acre.
Twelve rods 10 feet and Si inches square make an acre.
Dimensions of Small Lats. — The following are approximate measures of plots less than an acre: