Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/335/en

After the deep disruptions of the seventeenth century, the eighteenth century brought, with the Enlightenment, an awakening in agriculture as well. In its first half there flourished the so-called *Hausväter* literature, which — looking back on the lost *Weistümer* — still sought to grasp agriculture as an organismic, ethically grounded whole. In the second half of the eighteenth century, experimental economics moved to the fore. One held to what proved empirically reasonable within the framework of organismic self-containedness, and this in turn prepared the ground for the emerging agricultural sciences of the nineteenth century. After the long-lasting depression that followed the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War, agriculture took an upswing as the eighteenth century advanced. Apart from the management of a more rational, more thought-permeated practice, the improvement of living conditions was owed chiefly to the "summering of the fallow." Within the framework of the three-field system as it continued to be practiced, the fallow strips were sown with root crops (potatoes) and, above all, with clover. Through the cultivation of arable fodder crops, soil fertility rose, yields increased, and hardship gave way to a modest prosperity.