Cow pasture (unit)
Cow pasture was a measure of area in the Duchy of Bremen . The measure was the size of the area on which the renewable forage was to feed a cow over the summer season . The insufficient accuracy was dependent on the type of soil and the weather conditions. The rule of thumb was 30,000 to 70,000 square feet of willow size. The dimension is comparable to the so-called sowing dimensions . In these, the area size was determined by a fixed amount of seed. The differences in soils, such as geest, sand, heather, broken and bog soils, forest soil and meadows or marsh and polder soils were reduced to cow pastures and assessed.
literature
- Society of learned and practical merchants: General encyclopedia for merchants and manufacturers as well as for businessmen in general: or, Complete dictionary. Verlag Otto Wigand, Leipzig 1843, p. 128.
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Georg Ludwig Wilhelm Ubbelohde : About the finances of the Kingdom of Hanover and their administration . Hahn'sche Hofbuchlung, Hanover 1834, p. 219.