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Jethro Tull’s Horse-hoeing Husbandry

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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How to Pulverize Soil Around Your Crops

Tull travelled to italy and france for the sake of his health. He returned to england after somewhere between two and four years, but these dates are again unclear. The details about how plants grew and what it took to nourish them were poorly understood in britain at this point. Tull decided to try pulverizing the soil around his crops on a farm where much of the land was relatively shallow and chalky. And he reported that it was enormously successful in terms of efficiency and yield. It allowed him to grow wheat in the same field for 13 years without using manure or allowing the soil to lie fallow.

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