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1949-51_Vol.1J -    Note: 58aw

Page: 2/132
Date: 4.12.51.
Location: Sakaltutan
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12/4 {clerical error?} 4/12/51 evlik Muhtar (brother to i(Mncbe Ko), wife from Sakaltutan) says no one barring Talasli has more than 100 dnm in
Sakaltutan, on grounds of their yields. A propos of i(0134 Osman Gkpinar), whom he says confidently, has no more than 70 at the outside.
He says yield would be 2 mut {?} per dnm - i.e. 200 mut p.a. (or 10,000 inik) - argument reduced this to 3/4 mut (cf. 10/27), even so in a good year, 75 mut,
which is quite a bit. [100 dnm p.a. (one side) would yield 40 inik; this is reasonable; means 4,000 inik - i(0134 Osman Gkpinar) did claim 3,000 inik in a good
year].

k<check on landholdings>

{gl: in fact i(0134) only claimed 120 dn. in my census - 60 per side}
{c: this argument illustrates the difficulty of getting precise information. It looks as though I was remembering that I had been given a higher figure}

k<land utilisation>

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