Hi to all: Just received this information from Islay relatives. Am passing it on. Dorothy Bell Feeing I think would have started when with the Clearances when people who had been share-farmers became agricultural labourers, and were available for hire. You can see the change of description in the census returns. It applied to both men and women and the contract would be for six months. The fairs were held in May and November and must have lasted into the 20th century as Katie Shaw who was dear friend and vicarious grandmother to our children used to tell us about the excitement of going to the feeing Fair. Young men would give their favourite girls 'fairings' - little gifts that would be sold on stalls at the Fair.