Kay Books

Farming in Lincolnshire 1850-1945

Lincolnshire has long been recognised as an agricultural county. The late 19 and early 20th centuries were amongst the most major times of transformation in the county’s farming, during which Lincolnshire became one of the leading agricultural districts of England. Farming in the county became a major commercial activity while for other parts of the country it was industry. This happened despite some difficult economic conditions. Mechanisation and scientific techniques were applied to farming: by the end of the Second World War the horse was rapidly giving way to the tractor. In this book the course of these developments in Lincolnshire’s farming history is traced along with the rise of those particular features of the county’s agricultural landscape, the potato and bulbs.