 | Robert Forsyth - Agriculture - 1805 - 616 pages
...horses, allow- i * . ' ing half of it to be ploughed, was a common-sized farm. It was often run-rigged or mixed property ; and two or three farmers usually...acres. Many of these leases were granted for three 19 years. The rent was frequently paid In kind, or in what was called half-labour, by the steel-bow... | |
 | Robert Forsyth - Agriculture - 1805 - 616 pages
...horses, allow- •. J i I ing half of it to be ploughed, was a common-sized farm. It was often run-rigged or mixed property ; and two or three farmers usually...distributions of the farm in various proportions from JO to 40, 60, or 100 acres. Many of these leases were granted for three 19 years. The rent was frequently... | |
 | Robert Forsyth - Agriculture - 1805 - 614 pages
...four horses, allow- r ing half of it to be ploughed, was a common-sized farm. It was often run-rigged or mixed property; and two or three farmers usually lived in the same place, and had their djfferer.t distributions of the farm in various proportions from 10 to 40, 60, or 100 acres. Many of... | |
 | William Robertson - Ayrshire (Scotland) - 1891 - 272 pages
...employ four horses, allowing half of it to be ploughed, was a common sued farm. It was often ruuridge or mixed property ; and two or three farmers usually lived in the same place, and hod their different distributions of the farm, in various proportions, from l0 to 40, 60, or l00 acres.... | |
 | Howard Levi Gray - History - 1915 - 602 pages
...or as much as could employ four horses, allowing half of it to be ploughed, was a common sized farm. It was often runridge or mixed property; and two or...various proportions, from 10 to 40, 60, or 100 acres." * Again, from Annandale, in the west, comes the comment: " It may have been from the same ideas of... | |
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It was often run-rigged or mixed property ; and two or three farmers usually lived in the same place, and had their different distributions of the farm in various proportions from 10 to 40, 60, or 100 acres. 