The American Legion Weekly [Volume 3, No23 (June 10, 1921)] . ld be mapped in three or four years,whereas, up to the present time, notmore than forty percent of the area ofthe country has been covered. A very important development ofaerial photography has been enteredinto recently in connection with agri-culture. Photographs taken of theland will show the nature of the soil,farms and all their details, roads,bridges, systems of drainage, telegraphand telephone lines, power lines, gaslines, forests, and scrub land, and willreveal plainly the value of each farmphotographed and the results of the
The American Legion Weekly [Volume 3, No23 (June 10, 1921)] . ld be mapped in three or four years,whereas, up to the present time, notmore than forty percent of the area ofthe country has been covered. A very important development ofaerial photography has been enteredinto recently in connection with agri-culture. Photographs taken of theland will show the nature of the soil,farms and all their details, roads,bridges, systems of drainage, telegraphand telephone lines, power lines, gaslines, forests, and scrub land, and willreveal plainly the value of each farmphotographed and the results of thefarmers labor. Should these photo-graphs be published, each farm couldbe compared with its neighbors. Thissystem, of course, offers a highly scien-tific method of studying agriculture,and can be used to bring into cultivat;onmuch waste land that heretofore hasbeen allowed to remain idle. It hasbeen estimated that an airplane surveyof the agricultural possibilities of thecountry would increase our agricultural KAGE 8 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY COLUMBIABrV£Q. © MUNICIPAL AVAILABLE• AIRDOMES9 GROUP AIBDOMES When transcontinental air expresses begin speeding cross-country they will follow thecarefully planned airways indicated on this map output by at least one-tenth of one per-cent and, as the value of our agricul-tural production last year amounted to$19,000,000,000, a saving of one-tenthof one per cent would mean $19,000,000additional revenue each year. Maps such as those mentioned couldbe used in the coal and gas industriesof Pennsylvania. For instance, inButler County, Pennsylvania, where amap is desirable in gas developmentwork to show the roads, streams, rail-roads, farm lands, farm acreage, namesof farmers and many other details, itwould take three survey crews threeyears, at a cost of $40,000, to make thismap. An airplane Gould secure thebase for this map in one week, at acost of not more than $3,000, or tentimes more cheaply than it could besecured ordinaril
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