Farmers' holdings

Usage examples of acreages.

As he had foreseen that wintry night on Pikes Peak, it was the farmer, bringing unlikely acreages into cultivation by shrewd devices, who would account for the wealth of the future state.

There were stretches of wild thyme purpling long barren acreages, and growing up the railroad banks almost to the rails themselves.

Although it was more built up than Luke remembered, the sense of the area was the same: small fenced acreages that the mountain people called "the suburbs," and a scattering of run-down farms without enough dirt between the stones to scratch a living from.

Congress effectively outlawed then communal property, passing vast acreages into the public domain, tracts which then suddenly wound up in the hands of large American ranching enterprises like the Devine Company.