Talk:Pen (livestock farm)

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A pen was a cattle farm on the Island of Jamaica from the 1660s and during the subsequent English colonial era. Pens produced cattle for use as beasts of burden on sugar plantations and generally were situated on land unsatisfactory for sugar production. In 1751 about 500 pens existed, each averaging 216 acres, employing in total 67,000 slaves, cattle and mules. In comparison there were in that year 680 sugar plantations employing 105,000 slaves and 65,000 cattle, mules and horses. Buildings on a large pen would include an overseer's house, slavehouses, a stock house and corn mill. Provision crops (including corn, bromelia pinguin, plantains, peas, potatoes, and cassada ) and timber were also grown and in the case of a large pen of 945 acres, about one slave was employed per 22.5 acres, which compares to a typical denser ratio on a sugar plantation of one slave per 2 acres utilised.

SeeDraft talk:Pen (Jamaican cattle farm)Lobsterthermidor (talk) 17:46, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

Unreliable source used for list of pens
I've removed the list of pens from this version because the source cited is very obviously not reliable, and in any case it is only a list of places with "pen" in the name, not an attempt to accurately list pens in the sense meant here. —S MALL JIM   14:18, 10 November 2020 (UTC)