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• Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of abbreviations A note on terminology Introduction Part I - Increase in Grain Production 1. Crop Yields from Auctions of Standing Grain: Methods and Source CriticismAppendix 1. An Example of an Auction of Standing Grain2. Crop Yields, 1700-1839Appendix 2. Calculation of crop yields in kcal3. Barns Overflowing with GrainPart II - Changing Agricultural Practice4. What was Animal Husbandry for?5. Animal Feed and the Nutrient Cycle6. Modernizing Farmers? Part III - Farmers as Agronomists and Experimenters7. The Challenges of Open-Field Farming: Practice and DiscourseAppendix 3. Patterns of Rotation in Longecourt-en-Plaine, 1766-708. Farmers, Administrators and Agronomists Debate Crop Rotation9. Diffusion, Debate and ExperimentationAppendix 4. Questions on the Inquiry into the Drought of 1785ConclusionBibliography

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• Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of abbreviations A note on terminology Introduction Part I - Increase in Grain Production 1. Crop Yields from Auctions of Standing Grain: Methods and Source CriticismAppendix 1. An Example of an Auction of Standing Grain2. Crop Yields, 1700-1839Appendix 2. Calculation of crop yields in kcal3. Barns Overflowing with GrainPart II - Changing Agricultural Practice4. What was Animal Husbandry for?5. Animal Feed and the Nutrient Cycle6. Modernizing Farmers? Part III - Farmers as Agronomists and Experimenters7. The Challenges of Open-Field Farming: Practice and DiscourseAppendix 3. Patterns of Rotation in Longecourt-en-Plaine, 1766-708. Farmers, Administrators and Agronomists Debate Crop Rotation9. Diffusion, Debate and ExperimentationAppendix 4. Questions on the Inquiry into the Drought of 1785ConclusionBibliography