Talk:Coomb (unit)
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If I remember correctly
[edit]"if I remember correctly"? Amazing encyclopedic style, indeed.
- Indeed! Not exactly well-sourced info. Well it's gone (hidden actually) now. Jimp 09:05, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
Happy memories of old farmers
[edit]I'm cutting out the following paragraph because although it's interesting, it's devoid of any sources, and I'm worried that merely adding a citation-needed tag will mean it sits here for 15 years tagged but unsupported. "It is easy to infer that..." more-or-less admits to original research. This is the paragraph, in case anyone can add citations and restore it:
Although seldom referred to in Suffolk today except in conversation, older farmers in North Germany will frequently refer to crop yields in Doppelzentner pro Morgen. The area of a Morgen varies a bit in different regions, but is believed to be derived from the area a man would plough in a morning (Morgen), and is about one third of a hectare (0.82 acres), which is similar to an acre. A Doppelzentner is 100 kg (220 lb), and thus similar to a coomb. Similarly, the German word for an area of arable land is an Acker. It is easy to infer that the imperial acre is derived from the same Germanic word base. Thus the English and the German yield units are thus closely related, coombs per acre being similar to Doppelzentner pro Morgen.