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- 1754-1842. English pioneer and promoter of
- the improvements associated with the
- Agricultural Revolution. His innovations
- included regular manuring of the soil, the
- cultivation of fodder crops in association
- with corn, and the drilling of wheat and
- turnips. He also developed a fine flock of
- Southdown sheep at Holkham, Norfolk, which
- were superior to the native Norfolks, and
- encouraged his farm tenants to do likewise.
- These ideas attracted attention at the annual
- sheep shearings, an early form of
- agricultural show, which Coke held on his
- home farm from 1776. By the end of the
- century these had become major events, with
- many visitors coming to see and discuss new
- stock, crops, and equipment.
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