| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Already by the later seventeenth century or early eighteenth century open-field farmers were experimenting with new crops, such as turnips and legumes.3 Such crops were particularly useful to farmers where the commons were small and grazing was short, enabling them to keep more stock than would otherwise have been possible, and consequently helping them to manure their cropland more thoroughly.
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