# A Short History of English Agriculture Author: Curtler, W. H. R. (William Henry Ricketts), 1862-1925 Genre: Category: History - British Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16594 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=A+Short+History+of+English+Agriculture+Curtler&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary When the early bands of English invaders came over to take Britain from its Celtic owners, it is almost certain that the soil was held by groups and not by individuals, and as this was the practice of the conquerors also they readily fell in with the system they found.[1] These English, unlike their descendants of to day, were a race of countrymen and farmers and detested the towns, preferring the lands of the Britons to the towns of the Romans. Co-operation in agriculture was necessary because to each household were allotted separate strips of land, nearly equal in size, in each field set apart for tillage, and a share in the meadow and waste land. The strips of arable were unfenced and... ## Chapters - [Chapter 43](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-agriculture-16594/chapters/43/index.md) - [Chapter 36](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-agriculture-16594/chapters/36/index.md) - [Chapter 41](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-agriculture-16594/chapters/41/index.md) - [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-agriculture-16594/chapters/17/index.md) - [Chapter 37](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-agriculture-16594/chapters/37/index.md) - [Chapter 40](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-agriculture-16594/chapters/40/index.md) - [Chapter 30](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-agriculture-16594/chapters/30/index.md) - [Chapter 34](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-agriculture-16594/chapters/34/index.md) - [Chapter 29](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-agriculture-16594/chapters/29/index.md) - [Chapter 27](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-agriculture-16594/chapters/27/index.md) - [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-agriculture-16594/chapters/18/index.md) - [Chapter 42](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-agriculture-16594/chapters/42/index.md) - [Chapter 32](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-agriculture-16594/chapters/32/index.md) - [Chapter 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-agriculture-16594/chapters/22/index.md) - [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-agriculture-16594/chapters/19/index.md) - [Chapter 38](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-agriculture-16594/chapters/38/index.md) - [Chapter 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-agriculture-16594/chapters/25/index.md) - [Chapter 39](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-agriculture-16594/chapters/39/index.md) - [Chapter 35](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-agriculture-16594/chapters/35/index.md) - [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-agriculture-16594/chapters/20/index.md) - [Chapter 28](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-agriculture-16594/chapters/28/index.md) - [Chapter 26](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-agriculture-16594/chapters/26/index.md) - [Chapter 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-agriculture-16594/chapters/23/index.md) - [Chapter 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-agriculture-16594/chapters/24/index.md) - [Chapter 31](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-agriculture-16594/chapters/31/index.md) - [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-agriculture-16594/chapters/16/index.md) - [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-agriculture-16594/chapters/21/index.md) - [Chapter 33](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-agriculture-16594/chapters/33/index.md) - [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-agriculture-16594/chapters/5/index.md) - [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-agriculture-16594/chapters/12/index.md) - [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-agriculture-16594/chapters/11/index.md) - [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-agriculture-16594/chapters/2/index.md) - [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-agriculture-16594/chapters/14/index.md) - [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-agriculture-16594/chapters/15/index.md) - [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-agriculture-16594/chapters/1/index.md) - [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-agriculture-16594/chapters/6/index.md) - [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-agriculture-16594/chapters/13/index.md) - [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-agriculture-16594/chapters/8/index.md) - [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-agriculture-16594/chapters/3/index.md) - [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-agriculture-16594/chapters/4/index.md) - [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-agriculture-16594/chapters/9/index.md) - [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-agriculture-16594/chapters/10/index.md) - [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-agriculture-16594/chapters/7/index.md)