Balázs György (szerk.): The abolition of serfdom and its impact on rural culture, Guide to the Exhibition Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Revolution and War if Independence of 1848-49 (Budapest-Szentendre, Museum of Hungarian Agriculture-Hungarian Open-Air Museum, 1998.)

even live) categories of arable land according to its quality, and the number of holds (1 acre=0,7 hold) to be had in tenure differed accordingly. For example, in Sopron County the arable land belonging to a tenure was 16 holds, while in Szabolcs County it amounted to 28 holds. (One Hungarian hold is the equivalent of 1,200 squarefathoms.) Meadows were divided into two or three categories according to the frequency of mowing. The size of arable land belonging to a tenure varied, therefore, between 16 and 40 holds and that of the meadow between 6 and 22 „reapers". Peasant doing labour servicewith (One „reaper" was a territhis horses(forspont, German Vorspann) ory between 800 and 1,000 in Southern Hungary as part square-fathoms, i.e., one of his war-tax that could be reaped by one man a day.) So the size of the arable land and the meadow belonging to a tenure differed according to the quality of the given piece of land. One of the ways of extending plots was clearing the woods. The Urbarial Patent provided that clearings could not be taken from the serfs and incorporated into the land given in tenure unless the landlord paid the serfs for deforestation. The beasts of the peasants were allowed to graze on the pastures where the landlord kept his animals, except for animals for sale. Serfs had the right to cut reed and fell trees for firewood and building. However, they were obliged to cut down timber also for Ihe landlord and cart it home. To be allowed to feed swine on mast or graze animals in the woods, the peasants had to pay a certain sum of money to the landlord. Peasants growing wine were allowed to sell it in the local pub from Saint Michael's Day (29 September) to 6