Scientific Farming

If universal laws governed the universe and people, what else could they govern, according to scientific farming? (Choose the best answer!)

• gravity

• tidal waves

• animals and crops

• livestock living conditions

If farmers obeyed universal laws of farming, they could raise ​ (a)   and ​ (b)  

• larger crops
• healthier animals
• faster cars
• taller buildings
• smarter students
• bigger mountains
• immortal animals
• tractor gas prices

What would happen to a field that was planted with wheat year after year?

• All of these

• The land would remember to grow wheat, do that faster, and then another crop could be cultivated.

• It would produce greater yields every year.

• It would give less grain because the

  wheat would use up the minerals in the soil.

• None of these

He invented a four-year crop rotation.

• Lord Charles Townshend

• Charles II

• George Washington

• George Washington Carver

Order the crop rotation (what did farmers plant first, second, etc.?)

• Wheat

• Clover

• Turnips

• Barley or oats

Since farmers had more grain and more cattle food, they could afford to ​ (a)   all year round. This meant they could ​ (b)   .

• keep larger herds of cattle
• eat meat any time of the year
• take luxurious vacations
• sell their other animals to buy more cattle
• eat grains like barley and oats

They divided the common fields up into smaller private fields, with each one fenced off.

• Kings and queens

• Treaties of Versailles

• Townshend Acts

• "Acts of Enclosure"

This passage from Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility makes more sense if the reader knows about the English movement.

• industrialization

• encroachment

• agriculturalism

• enclosure

Match the following

• produced larger, healthier offspring

• Farmers who didn't have enough money to pay enclosure fees

• choosing which animals to breed

• Farmers could keep their sheep and cows separated

• sold their farms to richer neighbors

• Breeding selected animals

He invented a machine called the seed drill (see test cover image) to help farmers get more of their seeds to sprout.

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