Middlesex County, Ontario | Is "in and outs" a proper term?
Once upon a time I worked on a harvest crew. In Kansas or one of the Dakota's I happened to be the first combine into a wheat field and I had to open up the field in the dark. The next morning the owner told us that we'd cut into the neighbours "in and out."
The neighbour had broken his field up into lands. He'd have a fallow land, a crop land, a fallow land, a crop land, repeat, across the field. I assumed he rotated them every year. All the crop lands were connected with what I'd call a headland, but they referred to as "in and outs." In the dark I'd just cut along the fence line until the wheat stopped.
Is "in-and-out" a commonly used term for that part of field? |
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