Agriculture Lecture Notes

Flashcards about Enclosures and Crop Rotation

Enclosures

Scattered holdings replaced by enclosed fields, improved efficiency, reduced duplication, and encouraged experimentation.

More effective crop rotation

Aided by enclosures, experimental crops like clovers and turnips were used.

3 field system

Plant on it, graze animals, rest land. Enclosures made this easier to rotate.

Clovers and Turnips

Nitrate-rich, helps to heal and enrich the soil, stops fields from being fallow after grazing animals. Also, Turnips are frost resistant as a backup to potatoes.

Water meadows

Damp soil encouraging the growth of grass- animals/livestock on the farms.

Walter Blith

Literature spreads new farming techniques.

Statistics

Agricultural employment made up approximately 80% of the populace.

Over 50% of English land was dedicated to it.

Arable land

Any land capable of being ploughed and used to grow crops. In the South East

Pastoral farming

The rearing of animals. Cattle and sheep farming are the most common types. North-West

Landowners

Small tenant farmers land got taken over by rich landowners