Agriculture: Key individuals
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- Created on: 16-04-10 15:19
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Key Individuals:
- Arthur Young
- Failed farmer
- Travelled around the country writing about what he saw
- Annals of Agriculture for farmers
- Supported by George III
- Secretary for new Board of Agriculture 1793
- Oversaw General Enclosure Act 1801
- Encouraged improvement in writings
- Importance:
- Wide range of knowledge on best improvements
- Popularised improvements
- Influential at highest level
- Made enclosure easy to implament
- no longer needed to go through long drawn out parliament stage
- Didn't successfully carry out selective breeding, crop rotation himself
- Townshend
- Ex-government minister
- Norfolk system
- Enclosure
- 4-course crop rotation
- Long lease of 21 years
- Marling
- Drainage
- Fertilisers
- Importance:
- Had influence at all levels
- Allowed techniques/land layouts to enable improvements with…
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