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- - - - increase in working animals 1600- 360000 horses to 1700- 600000
      - increases in non working animals 130000 oxen
- - - - 1700- 1.8 million fallow and 9 million arable
        
        new crops could be used that benefitter due to crop rotation- frost reisstant turnip- more economical crops
        
        crops that benefiitesd aided industry such as flax for linen
- - - - husbandmen large in number but not a lot of land -40 acres so slow to take up specilaisation as had to be sure it would be economic to them
      - benefitter yeomen as theyhad lots of land and money so could investigate to get speciliasetion
- - - - needed better trnasport and infrastrucutre and specialist merchnats
        
        1663- turnpike act business men and merchants made the toll roads and tolls helped for the upkeep of roads and linked major market towns
        
        1657- the stage coach development bettered communication
  - - - market gardens werent successful as they didnt dominate economy till agyer the time period and a massive amout of farmers used local farms and markets so they werent signfiicant tp this time periods economy
      - not successful in ireland and scotland as they had inadequate trnaport infrastrcutre and gov reluctant to invest in agricultural practises there
      - the dominance of the london markets didnt holistically beneift the economy as there was a high demand there so it drained the rsoiurces of other counties so their living standards decreased and the price of basic agricukltural commodities x6 in the period
- - - - however allowed stable employment
      - suffered as inflation lowered wages
      - 1662- settlement actallowed landowners to easily hire and fire workers after harvests as they didnt have to pay poor rate if they were from a different parish
      - there was an increase in the proportion of laborours to tenants bad economy- 364000 families of laborours in the period
- - - - this led to an increase in farmers growth such as some had over 500 acres of land
      - however in some counties numerically the small land more than large farms
      - due to the exoansion of land owners needed help so leased out lands to tenants which was more profitable than mall land owners
      - inreased productivity as in land had no help in upkeep such as of the buildings so needed specialsied farmig to make a profit which investment required and provided by investors owenrs
      - the counties specilaised in wheat and livestock dominated by investors landowners
      - led to the potential investment in water courses and roads and trnapsort infrastrucutre so helped the development pf market gardens