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A fogás 205 Miklos Szilagyi FOG

ÁS Data on the Proportioning of the Territory and on the Time of Ploughing Fogds in the Hungarian peasant economy meant the territory which could be ploughed by hooking in the pulling animal force only once. The author raised the question why it was necessary to devide the plough-land into smaller units. He examines wheather the concept of territory measurement is in any connection with the temporal divisions of farming. Earlier descriptions either define fogas as 1 to 3 cadastral acre or a territory which can be ploughed in a day. The author reports such description from the Hungarian Great Plain that fog

ás means the territory which could be ploughed by hooking in the pulling animal force only once, consequently it means one third of the daily output per acre. The working hours were devided into three units on the basis of meals and rests. They started ploughing at dawn and had the first rest from 7 to 8 in the morning than continued ploughing from 8 to 12, rest until 2 and ploughed again until 7. So one farmer with two oxen (or horses) could plough 3 fogds a day. The professional literature and the analysis of the collected interviews show us that the latter was the original meaning. Therefore fogds served as a mean of checking the work performed. So fogds is not a conventional territory unit of measurement.