No person can have been in Norfolk without quickly perceiving, that in this branch of rural economy the county has very little to boast. No where are meadows and pastures worse managed: in all parts of the county we see them over-run with all sorts of spontaneous rubbish, bushes, briars, rushes: the water stagnant: ant-hills numerous: in a word, left in a state of nature, by men who willingly make all sorts of exertions to render their arable land clean, rich and productive.


Arthur Young (1804/1813), General View of the Agriculture of the County of Norfolk, p. 370; cited in: Naomi Riches (1967), The Agricultural Revolution in Norfolk. p. 91

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No person can have been in Norfolk without quickly perceiving, that in this branch of rural economy the county has very little to boast. No where are ...

No person can have been in Norfolk without quickly perceiving, that in this branch of rural economy the county has very little to boast. No where are ...

No person can have been in Norfolk without quickly perceiving, that in this branch of rural economy the county has very little to boast. No where are ...

No person can have been in Norfolk without quickly perceiving, that in this branch of rural economy the county has very little to boast. No where are ...