Abstract
M^ / -ANY writers on agriculture have discussed aspects of the size of farms. A topic of major interest has been the influence of farm size on the efficiency of agricultural production, and the respective merits of large and small farms have been debated by many authors.1 Of equal interest have been the changes which have taken place in the size of farms over a long period of time. This subject has attracted in particular students of the agricultural history of England.2 A wider field of study has been that of the impact of very large farms such as the hacienda or plantation on social and political life.3 Though there is a considerable literature on the size of farms in different parts of the world, the geography of farm size has received little more than inci-
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