Journal Of The Bath And West And Southern Counties Society 1896 97 Vol 7 Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from Journal of the Bath and West and Southern Counties Society, 1901-1902, Vol. 12 But, worst of all, the open-field system of cultivation, bou1 up as it was with the grazing of the tillage fields by stock durii the autumn of each year, made the cultivation of roots at clover impossible, and without these two types of crop a ration rotation was absolutely precluded. And not only was a common interest in arable land fatal agricultural progress, but the same held true in, regard to t common pasturage of live stock. The opportunities for t judicious mating and selection of animals - which, combin with a liberal diet, are the basis of improvement in live stock were altogether absent under a system of common grazir Disease, too, would necessarily be rife amongst flocks and her into which any member of a community had the right to tu animals of doubtful health, if not actually suffering from a speci ailment. So detrimental was the system to the interests stock-breeding that, as Sir John Sinclair, the first President the old Board of Agriculture, pointed out in 1795, it was font more profitable to hire enclosed land for the breeding of t' )etter classes of sheep than to turn them on to the commo for nothing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.