Sustainable Agriculture and Food: Four volume set (Earthscan Reference Collections)

Technology Adaptation: Agricultural Revolution in 17th–19th-Century Britain 263 Young was, however, aware of the need to crossch ...

264 Agricultural Revolutions and Change Professional surveyors The professional surveyor also played an important role in the ex ...

Technology Adaptation: Agricultural Revolution in 17th–19th-Century Britain 265 rots, turnips and parsnips. In the 1640s Samuel ...

266 Agricultural Revolutions and Change of several hundred in the early days, rising later to a few thousand. The most suc- cess ...

Technology Adaptation: Agricultural Revolution in 17th–19th-Century Britain 267 farmer were central. Thus in 1772 the former off ...

268 Agricultural Revolutions and Change to observe the practices on the estate, renowned for its rotation system that could feed ...

Technology Adaptation: Agricultural Revolution in 17th–19th-Century Britain 269 Technology Adaptation These extension mechanisms ...

270 Agricultural Revolutions and Change tradition. But open fields did not necessarily prevent innovations, nor enclosure encour ...

Technology Adaptation: Agricultural Revolution in 17th–19th-Century Britain 271 Attitudes to experimentation There is considerab ...

272 Agricultural Revolutions and Change expectations. Where I imagined 2 or 3 trials would have proved decisive, 40 have been co ...

Technology Adaptation: Agricultural Revolution in 17th–19th-Century Britain 273 in Suffolk, described an experiment on a wheat f ...

274 Agricultural Revolutions and Change the best yields of cereals and turnips in the region having begun with some of the ‘poor ...

Technology Adaptation: Agricultural Revolution in 17th–19th-Century Britain 275 sainfoin and burnet and rib grass.^2 The Norfolk ...

276 Agricultural Revolutions and Change on his farm. As the two touring farmers, Boys and Ellman, recorded in 1793, ‘in Mr Young ...

Technology Adaptation: Agricultural Revolution in 17th–19th-Century Britain 277 It is rather surprising that given all this evid ...

278 Agricultural Revolutions and Change In the County Report for Norfolk, Young records the seed-sowing practices of 44 farmers ...

Technology Adaptation: Agricultural Revolution in 17th–19th-Century Britain 279 Although his farm was 180 hectares in size and s ...

280 Agricultural Revolutions and Change management a rapid turnover of lambs was achieved through a system of internal resource ...

Technology Adaptation: Agricultural Revolution in 17th–19th-Century Britain 281 old breeds (Russell, 1986). Over a shorter perio ...

282 Agricultural Revolutions and Change for example, five farmers agreed not only the collective irrigation of 4.5 hectares of m ...