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grasses, there were also great improve- 

 ments in cattle and sheep. This is shown 

 directly by the increased weight of the 

 cattle and sheep, and especially by the high 

 prices that began to be paid for breeding 

 stock. 



Here, again, the landowners were, accord- 

 ing to Young, the pioneers of agricultural 

 progress. Rogers calculates that the pro- 

 ductiveness of agriculture in the eighteenth 

 century was four times that of the thirteenth, 

 both as regards corn and stock. 



Young, founding on the evidence of his 

 tours, calculated that the average rent of 

 cultivated land all over England, taking 

 good and poor together, was IDS. an acre. 

 He continually urges that the rental, 

 especially for good land, is too low, and 

 surely this confirms the injustice of Rogers 

 as regards the rapacity of landlords. 

 Young says that on the best land the 



