The following is an excerpt from AuthurYoung's treatise on enclosure:"Respecting open field lands, the quantity of labor in them is not comparable to that of enclosures; for, not to speak of the great numbers of men that in enclosed countries areconstantly employed in winter in hedging and ditching, what comparison can there be betweenthe open field system of one half or a third of the lands being in fallow, receiving only three ploughings; and the same portion now tilled four,five, or six times by Midsummer, then sown with turnips, those hand-held twice, and then drawn by hand, and carted to stalls for beasts; or elsehurdled out in portions for fattening sheep! What a scarcity of employment in one case, what a variety in the other!"Based on this passage, it is reasonable to conclude that Young believed that the enclosure system a. was more labor intensive than the traditional open-field system.

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