Agriculture in Great Britain
... . Part 3 By L. F. Newman. M.A., F.S.A., Dip. Agric. (Camb.). THE latter part of the seventeenth century saw a further development towards the basis of modern English agri culture, the four-course system, which provided winter food for farm animals. It enabled the farmer to obtain enough farm yard manure to maintain the fertility of the soil and to produce larger quantities of cereal foods. ...