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Definition of Desyatins
1. desyatin [n] - See also: desyatin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desyatins
Literary usage of Desyatins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Russia of To-day by John Foster Fraser (1916)
"Of this, 73000000 desyatins ... In fact, the entire acreage rented by the peasants
amounts to some 40000000 desyatins (100000000 acres). ..."
2. Soviet Russia by Friends of Soviet Russia, Soviet Union Russian Soviet Government Bureau (New York, N.Y.) (1920)
"The entire number of horses and cows will yield sufficient fertilizer for only
13000 desyatins of fallow land, ie, about 10 per cent, of the area intended ..."
3. The Future of War: In Its Technical, Economic, and Political Relations by Jan Bloch (1899)
"The following table is even more instructive : On 1oo desyatins of The Harvest from
... <x>desyatins(27o acres) of corn land have 62 per cent. less domestic ..."
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