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Excerpt from The Decline of Landowning Farmers in England
During the twenty years from 1880 to 1900 a significant de cline in the percentage of landowning farmers took place in the United States. The facts of this decline are easily obtained 1 the causes, however, are not so readily formulated. To analyze the forces which are tending to bring about a change in the organiza tion of industrial society, and to observe with sufficient care the laws and customs and other conditions which retard or accelerate the operation of these forces, is a most difficult task. This work is facilitated, however, by studying similar conditions in other countries. Some countries having passed through more stages of economic development than others, it is possible to compare present conditions in a new country with the past of an older coun try, and thus bring some light to bear upon present day problems.
England offers excellent advantages to the student of histor ical and comparative agriculture. English agriculture has, per haps, passed through more stages of economic development than that of any other country. Increasing intercourse with the out side world, and the accompanying changes in the organization of industrial society, have made it necessary for the English farmers of each succeeding generation to adapt themselves to new condi tions. These economic changes have had a marked in?uence upon the relation of the farmers to the land which they cultivate. Two hundred years ago landownership on the part of farmers was common in England; but today it is rare. It has been attempted in this paper to bring together as much evidence as possible upon the conditions and forces which have resulted in this decline in the number of landowning farmers in England.
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