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Strip farming is a concept covering a land distribution in agriculture. In collective farmyards where every single farmer owned or rented a part of the farm, the properties become complicated. The home fields were divided into small strips and each family maintained rights to both the suitable and the lesser suitable fields. Outlying fields were not divided but kept in common use. Norwegian strip farming is a variation on the Open field system practiced in much of Europe from medieval to modern times. In the years after the black death in the 1300 Norway developed, in contrast to most of the European countries, a particular farm structure, with free and partly independent farmers. Norway differed also in other aspects. The central Europeans lived in villages, while in Norway the settlings gathered in different, collective farmyards. Since the population had a relatively strong growth through the 1700 there was an increase in dividing farms between brothers and by division of inheritance. ==Eastern Norway== In the eastern Norway the development was distinguished by the strong expansion of the cotters system until its culmination about 1850. A cotters farm was often established because of that the one of the brothers who had «odel» (usually the eldest brothers exclusive right to inherit the whole farm) gave a cotters farm to the other brothers and thus make it possible for them to raise their own families. In this agrarian society the farm was the source of wealth, prosperity and a good life. Those not having a farm might risk their life as «legdeslem» (legd = a kind of rural, social security). Poor people circulated from farm to farm in a district where the people by law had an obligation to provide food and accommodation, usually in the barn (lem = member) or to spend the rest of their lives as servants. This system was a very strong social fissure process. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Strip farming in Norway」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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