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by the 1740s about half the farmers in Norfolk and Suffolk were growing turnips and about a quarter had clover on their farms.
Turnips provided extra winter fodder but also acted as a cleaning crop if cultivated properly with regular hoeing. They were important in enabling some light lands, like the chalk downlands of southern England and parts of Norfolk, to be brought under the plough for the first time. The clover crop not only provided extra fodder, but as a nitrogen fixing legume increased the supply of an essential nutrient for cereal crops.
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