Summary
THE principles of good husbandry are now almost universal, if not always universally applied.
While new systems for managing the land to its best long-term advantage do appear from time to time - minimum tillage and extended grazing being two recent examples - they tend to have a wide application, rather than being confined to one particular part of the country. It was not always thus. The agricultural improver and commentator, William Marshall, writing in the early 19th century, was moved to observe that what he called "Dumnonian husbandry" - that is to say the husbandry of Devon, Cornwall and the western fringes of Somerset and Dorset - "was as distinguishable from that of the body of the island as if the peninsula that they form had been recently attached to it".See the full content of this document
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Small Family Farm Holds Key to Good Husbandry
Or, to put it more succinctly, farming in Cornwall and Devon was different. Exactly how different is analysed in a fascinating article in the current edition of the Transactions of the Devonshire Association, by Robin Stanes. He takes as his starting poin...
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