English Farming, Past and Present

acres agricultural labourers agriculturists allowed arable land Arthur Young average barley Board of Agriculture bread breed Cambridgeshire cattle classes clover common fields corn Corn Laws cost cottages counties crops cultivation demesne districts drainage duty eighteenth century enclosed Enclosure Acts enclosures England English farming Essex estates exports farmers favourable fens fertilisers Fitzherbert foreign grain grass harvest Hertfordshire horses husbandry important improved increased industry Jethro Tull labour landlords landowners legislation Leicestershire less Lincolnshire live-stock living Lord manor manufacturing manure ment methods milk Norfolk oats occupiers open-field farms organisation owners Oxfordshire parish Parliament pasture payment period plough Poor Law population practice produce profits progress quarter rates regulated reign rents roads rural says scarcity seasons seed sheep soil Suffolk supply tenants tillage tion tithes trade turnips turnpike trusts Tusser village farms wages Warwickshire wastes wheat winter wool writers