tailieunhanh - COMMUNISTIC FARMING.—GROWTH OF THE MANOR.— EARLY PRICES.—THE ORGANIZATION AND AGRICULTURE OF THE MANOR

When the early bands of English invaders came over to take Britain from its Celtic owners, it is almost certain that the soil was held by groups and not by individuals, and as this was the practice of the conquerors also they readily fell in with the system they found. [1] These English, unlike their descendants of to day, were a race of countrymen and farmers and detested the towns, preferring the lands of the Britons to the towns of the Romans. Co-operation in agriculture was necessary because to each household were allotted separate strips of land, nearly equal. | COMMUNISTIC FARMING. GROWTH OF THE MANOR. EARLY PRICES. THE ORGANIZATION AND AGRICULTURE OF THE MANOR When the early bands of English invaders came over to take Britain from its Celtic owners it is almost certain that the soil was held by groups and not by individuals and as this was the practice of the conquerors also they readily fell in with the system they found. 1 These English unlike their descendants of to day were a race of countrymen and farmers and detested the towns preferring the lands of the Britons to the towns of the Romans. Co-operation in agriculture was necessary because to each household were allotted separate strips of land nearly equal in size in each field set apart for tillage and a share in the meadow and waste land. The strips of arable were unfenced and ploughed by common teams to which each family would contribute. Apparently as the land was cleared and broken up it was dealt out acre by acre to each cultivator and supposing each group consisted of ten families the typical holding of 120 acres was assigned to each family in acre strips and these strips were not all contiguous but mixed up with those of other families. The reason for this mixture of strips is obvious to any one who knows how land even in the same field varies in quality it was to give each family its share of both good and bad land for the householders were all equal and the principle on which the original distribution of the land depended was that of equalizing the shares of the different members of the In attributing ownership of lands to communities we must be careful not to confound communities with corporations. Maitland thinks the early land-owning communities blended the character of corporations and of co-owners and coownership is ownership by The vills or villages founded on their arrival in Britain by our English forefathers resembled those they left at home and even there the strips into which the arable fields were divided were owned