FALLOWS LESS FREQUENT i8i 



over frequent use of fallows, which had so long marked agri- 

 culture, 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.' * 



^ Country Ge7itletnan and Farmer's Director (1726), p. xiii. 



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