Farming

Farming in the 17^th century had not change and much from the new stone as they used much the same tools and same system. This system was called the open-field system this meant that each villager would get their own strips of good and bad soil the rich farmers would get more strips. They would all share the common and waste land to rear their cows, sheep and pigs. There was alternative to this system and it was enclosed fields. This system meant that each farmer would get his own field roughly the size of the strips he previously owned. The fields were enclosed by hedges or fences. Most poor people were against this because they had to few strips to make a field and did not have enough money to enclose the field anyway. There were also some improvements made to the machinery. For example the invention of seed drill which was a much more efficient way to sow the seeds.