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- - - - crop rotation technique
        
        1700- 9 million arable and 1.8 million fallow
        
        due to crop rotation led to introduction of frost resitant turnip and other new crops which were more economical
        
        crops that benefitted from the crop rotation techniquye aided industry like flax for linen
- - - - howevr inflation led to lowering wages which was bad economically
      - however farms did provide stable employment
      - 1662- settlemnt act that meant that landoweners could easily hire or fire the laborours from different parishes when the harvest was over as they didnt have to worry about poor rates
      - 1688- there was 364000 families of laborours
        
        there was an increase in the proportion of laboours to farmers
- - - - yeomen had lots of land and money so could experiment to reach specialisation
      - husbandmen made up a large proportaion of farmers buyt they had less than 40 acres and were effectd by bad harvests so slow to take up as had to know the benefits