The Art and Craft of Chicken Cramming: Poultry in the Weald of Sussex 1850-1950
Author(s)
Short, Brian
Abstract
The poultry industry of Sussex serves to illustrate the following facets of agrarian life: (1) the interrelationship of the social and physical environment, (2) the importance of the environment and spatial factors in the development of an innovation and (3) how small undercapitalized farms and laborers could weather severe economic fluctuations. Above all, it illustrates how an industry could develop in rural England based on peasant traditions and with little of the encouragement afforded to other branches of agriculture by the gentry, nobility and landowners.
