The acreage of farms ran from a section, six hundred and forty acres, up into the thousands.

Increase of acreage in the spring states in unexpectedly large.

The Board of Agriculture has urged that where practicable the acreage under wheat should be increased.

I have had a taste of all the work on the farm, besides of digging and clearing up new ground to increase the acreage to the farm.

According to "Uncle Dock" the four Wilborn brothers each owning more than one hundred slaves acquired a large body of wild, undeveloped land, divided this acreage between them and immediately began to erect numerous log structures for housing themselves, their Negroes, and their stock, and to deaden the timber and clear the land preparatory to placing their crops the following season.

He was fertilizing each year a third of his corn acreage with cotton seed, and a twentieth of his cotton with barnyard manure; and he was making a surplus of thirty or forty bushels of corn per hand for sale.

Modern industry "plants"steel plants, cement plants, open pit mines, textile plants, machine tool plants, auto plants, rubber factories, oil refineriesnot only occupy extensive acreage per plant, but the same interests and corporate managements operate dozens of plants in widely separated geographical areas and produce a great variety of goods and services.

So our tiny God's Acre, shrunk to a small fraction of human acreage through pressure of the encroaching tenements, has filled up until now it has space but for few more of the returning.