This crop of wheat was not very good, as the average in that district was from 20 to 25 bushels per acre, and Young before this saw crops of 30 bushels per acre growing. The over frequent use of fallows, which had so long marked agriculture, was in the early half of the eighteenth century beginning to be strongly disapproved of. Bradley advocated the continuous cultivation of the ground with different kinds of crops, 'for I find', he said, 'by experience that if such crops are sown as are full of fibrous roots, such roots greatly help to open the parts of grounds inclining to too much stiffness.'[422]
FOOTNOTES:
[367] Six Centuries of Work and Wages, p. 472.
[368] See Baker, Record of Seasons and Prices, p. 185.
[369] Eden, State of the Poor, iii p. cvii; Thorold Rogers, Work and Wages, p. 396.
[370] In Herefordshire at this time it was 11/2d. per lb.
[371] Hasbach, op. cit. p. 86.
[372] Eden, op. cit. i. 286.
[373] Ibid. i. 498.
[374] Hasbach, op. cit. p. 71.