The crop supplied more tobacco than was needed, but no one man would cease to plant it, or lessen his crop for the general good.
Upon this account they think it folly to take off their hands (or negroes) and employ their care and time about anything that may make them lessen their crop of tobacco.
If fortune frowns he may lessen his crop but never his attachment for the plant.
During this process the crop is divided into the various grades of commerce from 'long bright' leaf to 'lugs' the lowest grade known to manufacturers.
During the growing of the crop, and particularly after it has been cured and stripped, the growers congregate together, and talk over the condition of the crop and the prices likely to be realized.
Cromwell disliked the plant, and ordered his troops to trample down the crop wherever found.
As it varies in color, texture, and length, so fluctuates its market price, and at least half the battle lies in the manner in which the crop has been handled in curing.
All other crops in his opinion are of but little importance compared with the great New England product, one crop is frequently not off his hands before he is preparing for another.
Harris said; 'I want the money to purchase wheat for my family; and as you have raised a good crop of wheat, I will take that of you instead of money, at a current price.
But who's to cropme another new hat, or grow me another new gown?
If Rome, which is the seat of government, shows such unmistakable signs of depression, imagine the stagnation of Florence, which has long been as dependent upon its crop of tourists as a Dakota farmer is upon his crop of wheat.
Now, what farmer could expect to raise a good crop of wheat from a soil destitute of silecious earth, since this earth constitutes a large amount of the earthy part of wheat?
An increase of cropcan only be obtained when we add more to the soil than we take away from it.
Its exports would be tobacco, flour, and corn; the tobacco crop probably more than equalling in value those portions of the other crops which are sent out of the country.
The onions and cucumbers both promising so well, Mark rejoiced at this discovery, determining at once to use some of the vinegar on a part of his expected crop of those two vegetables.
It became desirable to keep this grass down, and Kitty being unable to crop a meadow of so many acres, Mark was compelled to admit his pigs and poultry again.
Not the crop that was planted, suh, but the crop that he expected to plant.
Whenever a part of the forest has been cleared for a garden, and afterward abandoned, a species of plant, with leaves like those of ginger, springs up, and contends for the possession of the soil with a great crop of ferns.
Quendende's head was a good specimen of the greater crop of wool with which the negroes of Londa are furnished.
The country becomes more open, but is still abundantly fertile, with a thickcrop of grass between two and three feet high.
His tall companion had that sickly yellow hue which made him look fairer than myself, but his head was covered with a crop of unmistakable wool.
A crop of beans or ground-nuts is sown between them, and when these are reaped the land around the manioc is cleared of weeds.
When they come out of the river by night, they crop off the soft succulent grasses very neatly.
When a woman takes up the roots, she thrusts a piece or two of the upper stalks into the hole she has made, draws back the soil, and a newcrop is thereby begun.
The water of inundation covers even these lofty banks, but does not stand long upon them; hence the crop of trees.
Virgin soil does not give such a heavy crop as an old garden, and, judging from the size of the maize and manioc in the latter, I can readily believe the statement.
The soil is extremely fertile, being generally a black loam covered with a thick crop of tall grasses.
The authorities realize that while timber is a crop like other crops, it differs from the other crops in that the harvesting must {167} never be complete.
Riding through the country almost anywhere you will notice the tender young plants of some new crop showing between the rows of some earlier-planted crop now maturing or newly harvested.
That is to say, some other crop is maturing on the land while the rice plants are growing large enough to transplant.
About Shanghai they do not use the heavier two and three horse plows I found about Peking; consequently the land is poorly broken to begin with, and the cultivation while the crop is growing amounts to very little.
Parker, in charge of the agricultural experiment farm here (he is a Minnesota man, I believe), and found him enthusiastic over his corn crop just harvested.
The great moneycrop is the soy bean, and the lower picture shows miles of beans and bean-cake awaiting shipment at Changchun.
The advancing price of cotton has proved a matter of hardly less interest to India than to America, and for several years the crop has been steadily increasing.
Rather it was a fact with regard to what is in every land the most important of all crops--the crop of boys and girls.
Small gray boulders then began to crop out, and gradually became so thick that the trees thrust them aside as they grew.
The annual crop of grapes upon this one vine is from six to ten thousand pounds, as much as the yield of half an acre of common vines.
Then, the climate is all that could possibly be desired,--as during the growth and ripening of the grapes they are never exposed to storms of rain or hail, which often destroy the entire crop in many parts of Europe.
There are several Indian lodges close by and a fullcrop of young children playing around the door.
The soil looks black and no doubt would yield a goodcrop of corn.
She raised her hunting-crop and pointed with an exquisite movement, as graceful as that of a Diana, to the hill behind her.
Ida was moved; the crop nearly snapped in her hands, and her eyes grew moist.
Her hands were covered by well-worn gauntlets, and she held a stout and workman-like crop with a long huntsman's thong.
Each June it took on a new crop of young men to "learn the business.
And I was coming to them for a cargo of sugar in the hope of the crop having been good and of the freights being high.
When Freya's father came down to the shore, after seeing his precious crop of tobacco spread out properly in the sun, she was already steaming round the point.
I never learned it till we'd taken in the finest crop in the district at the next harvesting.
A small man may lose his crop through blight, drought, a hundred causes.
The chief wonder of the matter, setting aside that marvellous coldness, was that there was nothing at all in my crop when I had finished my lamentings!
The crop on the ground and the seed in the ground had been taken.
In the time of the French it produced about three millions and a half of pounds weight, but in 1825 the crop only amounted to five hundred and twenty thousand pounds.
This promise was fulfilled, for a band of angels came to the ripest and largest fields, reaped and bound a great deal quickly, and gathered the crop into one place.
Once, at harvest time, the farm steward came to Mochuda complaining that, though the crop was dead ripe, a sufficient number of harvesters could not be found.
I should not wonder, if his present crop comes off well and the market holds on, if before Christmas he were worth as many thousands as he had hundreds the day he bought that piney old-field.
As this was the chief cropof the region, and one admitting of no delay in its harvesting and curing, it was thought that this would prove a sufficient guaranty of fair treatment.
So they shed off ez fine ez ever you see ennything in yer life, an' hev jest been a doin' the work in the crop without turnin' a hair.
Powerful few folks is willin' ter give the keer it takes ter grow an' cure a fine crop o' terbacker.
It don't take much tobacco at a dollar a pound, which his last crop brought, lugs and all, to make a man that does his own work and works his own land right well off.
Question: Is that the habit of the pecan to set a crop and then drop off?
Texas produces the bulk of the pecan crop well informed men stating that nine-tenths of the pecans come from the Lone Star State.
If we will treat the plants in our hazel orchards as herein described we should not experience any difficulty in raising a fairly good crop of nuts, if the proper varieties are selected.
There is nothing more fascinating in the world than to take one crop and learn to know it "down to the ground.
This year the tree set full and had a good crop when I saw it last.
The greater part of our pecan crop comes from wild trees in the Southwest.
Only a few of the staminate blossoms that were well covered under snow developed perfectly and the result was a very small crop of nuts on most of the varieties, but all the varieties had some, even those more or less frozen plants.
This may be correct but practically all Texas pecans are seedlings and while some are of real merit the bulk of the Texas crop goes to the crackeries.
I have seen women working long, dry grass under the soil in camote sementeras at the time the crop was being gathered (Pl.
Storing No palay is carried to the a-lang', the separate granary building, or to the dwelling for the purpose of being stored until the entire crop of the sementera is harvested.
Besides, throughout the long night men and women build fires among the sementeras and guard their crop from the wild hog.
Cultivating and protecting the crop falls to the members of the family which owns the sementera, so the Igorot say; he claims never to have to pay for such labor.
Turning the soil for the annual crop of irrigated rice begins in the middle of December and continues nearly two months.
The men keep constant watch of the sementera walls and the irrigating canals, repairing all, thus indirectly assisting the women in their cultivation by directing water to the growing crop and by conserving it when it is obtained.
Twenty people can harvest the crop in a day; cost, 1 peso.
The a-lang' is carefully closed again after each sementera crop has been put in.
It is also used to pick over the earth in camote sementeras when the crop is gathered.
The crop last year was such -- a whitish gall gave the warning.
Before the soil is turned in a sementera it has given up its annual crop of camotes, and the water has been turned on to soften the earth.
During June the crop is ripened everywhere, and the harvest is on in earnest; the Igorot speaks of it as the "moon of the all harvest.
In consequence of this hint, the droll was cut short, and the booth cleared for the new crop of impatient expectants!
He had long since taught the mustang to stand quietly in one spot when his reins were dangling, not to crop grass while a rider was in the saddle, and various other accomplishments of a good riding horse.
The horse looked at both of them for a moment and then calmly started to crop the grass.
The war between the North and the South produced an abundant crop of bitter prejudices against the mother country.
Meanwhile the policy of breach of faith was producing its natural crop of inconvenience.
Let us picture him to ourselves as he approaches his horses, how easily he catches his whip, the crop held well up so as not to run the chance of the thong being entangled in the wheeler's ears, and there are no festoons of the thong.
If he is he will pick out a crop without knots, or with as few as possible, whereas the tyro is nearly sure to take the knotty one.
Some preferred, I think most professionals did, a stiff crop and a light thong, but others, especially amateurs, were in favour of a supple stick with a heavier thong.
In those days, also, coachmen did not catch their whips, only giving the thong a few turns round the crop at the upper ferrule.
There is no symmetry about anything, and tiny headstones crop up here and there through a tangle of weeds and wild flowers.
The forum is plainly marked, and near by are the baths, with their heating-furnaces yet visible; and the ruined arcades of an amphitheatre crop up through the thin soil in a surprising manner.
Four months later his ample, or meagre, crop comes by chance.
In Africa the tobacco crop is something that brings peace and plenty to any who will cultivate it judiciously, for the consumption of the weed is great.
Let no one make the mistake, then, of taking this crop of North African novels for their guide and mentor.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crop" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
