| 单词 | third -and-fourth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthird(s)-and-fourth(s) b. third(s)-and-fourth(s): in cotton and corn farming, a system whereby the tenant contributes towards the cost of seed and fertilizer and the landowner receives a proportion of the crops (see quots. 1964 for third dimension n., 1967 for third-stage adj., 1967 for third-stage adj. at Compounds 1). U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > [noun] > types of farming high culture1771 scientific farming1789 metaying1792 high farming1815 petite culture1848 sharefarming1857 urban agriculture1860 bush-farming1866 mixed farming1872 dry farming1878 co-aration1883 co-ploughing1883 smallholding1889 power-farming1913 dry-land farming1914 third(s)-and-fourth(s)1940 link system1950 green revolution1968 1940 W. Faulkner Hamlet i. i. 8 ‘What rent were you aiming to pay?’ ‘What do you rent for?’ ‘Third and fourths,’ Varner said. 1964 Amer. Folk Music Occas. No. 1. 62 He could take advantage of the new system of farming rented land. ‘You call that third-and-fourths, now. I do my own furnishing and then the man that owned the land would get [e]very third bale of cotton, every fourth load of corn.’ 1967 G. W. Walton in Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xlvii. 29 Thirds and fourths,..a method of tenant farming whereby the following practices are common: the landowner furnishes the land and a house for the tenant; the tenant furnishes his own plow animals and tools and does all the work; the tenant then pays for one-fourth of the seed and fertilizer for growing the cotton and receives one-fourth of the cotton grown; the tenant pays for one-third of the seed and fertilizer for growing corn and receives one-third of the corn. 1976 C. S. Brown Gloss. Faulkner's South 198 Third and fourth,.…One who pays at this rate is a ‘share tenant’. .. He supplies his own equipment... Then he pays one third of the seed and fertilizer for cotton, and pays one fourth of his crop as rent. < as lemmas |
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