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What was used before charles townshends invention?

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Charles Towsend popularized a four-year crop rotation with rotations of wheat, barley, turnips, and clover. Before that farmers had use a 3 year crop rotation of rye or winter wheat in year one, followed by spring oats or barley in the second year, and followed by a third year of no crops.

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