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For the Schools: Tracing History Backwards: 2b: Agriculture

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K.C. Bowell
Last week Commander King-Hall talked about agriculture and its conditions at the present day. This morning Mr. K.C. Boswell is to show listeners, by means of a dramatic interlude, something of the agricultural revolution of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when country people flocked to the towns and the nation could no longer live on the produce of Great Britain..... The scene is set in a tithe barn at Castle Lazing in the year 1780. The squire's bailiff is heart describing to cottagers the scheme for land enclosure. A typical cottager of the time sees nothing in the idea but the stealing from him of the land he has grazed his beasts on, but his protests are overruled.

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K. C. Boswell

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