It is very much to be desired that the open-field system of the various districts of France should be carefully studied in the same way.
Even in the fourteenth century a three-field system seems to have been regarded in some places as 'high farming.
For evidence of the three-field system, see Nasse, Agricultural Community, Engl.
During the middle ages cattle and sheep were the chief farm animals, but the intermixture of stock consequent on the common-field system was a barrier to improvement in the breed and conduced to the propagation of disease.
The bulk of the land was still farmed by small tenants on the old common-field system, which made it impossible for the individual to adopt a new crop rotation and hindered innovation of every kind.
Large districts still clung to the old common-field system, to the old habits of ploughing with teams of four or eight, and to slovenly methods of cultivation.
The treatise on husbandry of Walter of Henley, dating from the early 13th century, is very valuable as describing the management of the demesne under the two- or three-field system.
Maitland thinks the two-field system was as common as the three-field, both in early and mediaeval times.
Sidenote: Disadvantages of Three-field System of Agriculture] This so-called three-field system of agriculture was distinctly disadvantageous in many ways.
The tradition was that of the "three-field system" of agriculture.
Sidenote: Persistence of "Three-field System" of Agriculture] In another important respect the manorial system survived long after serfdom had begun to decline.
The very origin and persistence of the cumbersome common-field system in so many parts of the world is sufficient testimony as to the impossibility of improving the quality of the soil in the Middle Ages.
And still the open-field system, with the intermixed strips, is quite a prevalent feature of mediaeval husbandry all over Europe.
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