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General View of the Agriculture of Somerset. The General View series of county surveys was an initiative of the Board of Agriculture of Great Britain, of the early 1790s. Many of these works had second editions in the 1810s.
The economics of English agriculture in the Middle Ages is the economic history of English agriculture from the Norman invasion in 1066, to the death of Henry VII in 1509. England's economy was fundamentally agricultural throughout the period, though even before the invasion the market economy was important to producers.
His 1731 book The New Horse Hoeing Husbandry explained the systems and devices he espoused to improve agriculture. The book had such an impact that its influence can still be seen as the start of modern farming. Charles Townsend, a viscount known as "Turnip Townsend", in the 1730s introduced turnip farming on a large scale.
The sugar plantation islands of the Caribbean, where slavery became the basis of the economy, comprised England's most lucrative colonies. The American colonies also used slave labour in the farming of tobacco, indigo, and rice in the south. England, and later Great Britain's, American empire was slowly expanded by war and colonisation.
Young produced around 25 books and pamphlets on agriculture and 15 books on political economy, as well as many articles. These include: A Six Weeks Tour Through the Southern Counties of England and Wales; The Farmer’s Letters to the People of England, 1768. The farmer's guide in hiring and stocking farms. London, 1770.
Ploughmen at work with oxen. Agriculture formed the bulk of the English economy at the time of the Norman invasion. [16] Twenty years after the invasion, 35% of England was covered in arable land, 25% was put to pasture, 15% was covered by woodlands and the remaining 25% was predominantly moorland, fens and heaths. [17]
This was the best performance in UK agriculture since the 1990s. Agriculture employed 476,000 people, representing 1.5% of the workforce, down more than 32% since 1996. In terms of gross value added in 2009, 83% of the UK's agricultural income originated from England, 9% from Scotland, 4% from Northern Ireland and 3% from Wales. [3] [75] [76 ...
By 1807, he was pursuing his second ambition, a Review and Abstract of the Board's county surveys. This Review, which was in five volumes published over ten years, was critical of the quality of the Board of Agriculture reports. [6] Marshall was scathing about Young, once comparing him to 'superficial charlatans'.