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FEW people, probably, realise the extent of the potential revolution in agriculture foreshadowed in recent legislation in Great Britain, the farmer himself least of all. Here is an intensely individualist industry, still largely traditional and practised over the greater part of the country upon principles which have changed very little in their essentials these two hundred years. All over England, right up to Tudor times, and later than that in many places, farmers were working mainly to feed and to clothe themselves and their families, with very little thought for commercial enterprise except around some of the larger towns and seaports. It was not until the growth of population in the eighteenth century, coinciding as it did with the introduction of new crops and improvement in the technique of cultivation and the breeding of livestock, that agriculture turned definitely from the self-sufficient to the commercial type of organisation.
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Organisation of Agriculture. Nature 132, 909–911 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132909a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/132909a0