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Is your claim that the fertilizer industry came from Townshend?

• bee_rider 4y ago
  I believe their claim is that a particular way of using fertilizer came from Townshend.
  • krick 4y ago
    Yet it isn't explained anywhere in his comments what this "particular way" exactly is. I guess it's supposed to be common knowledge, but I'm as clueless on that matter as the downvoted commentators in this thread are. Neither does Wikipedia on "Norfolk four-course system" (which it claims Townshend popularized, not invented) mention anything about the fertilizer, simply claiming that inclusion of a turnip as the fodder crop allowed livestock to be bred year-round.