The greater freedom ofcropping and the less close adherence to the formal system of rotation of crops, which characterize the early years of the 20th century, rest upon a scientific basis.
The opportunities which rotation cropping affords for the cleaning of the land from weeds is another distinct element of advantage.
The farmer therefore arranges hiscropping in such a way that roots, or leguminous crops, succeed the cereal crops.
He could not give immediate attention, for he was in a rocky section of the road, so full of boulders and out-cropping ledges that it was easy to divine that the overseer had a lenient interpretation of the idea of repair.
But cropping of ears did not stop these headstrong people, and they still coming, some were put to death.
For neither the jail, nor whipping, nor croppingof ears, did suffice to rid him of them.
The hunter searches for the beds of the roes with dogs, or stalking the forests steals upon the herd when browsing upon the tender twigs and the moss of trees, or cropping the herbs along the skirts of the pastures.
The excellent condition in which it puts the seed-bed, viewed from the standpoint of the duration of the years of cropping that are likely to follow, would seem to more than justify such preparation of the land.
The branches are woody in character, especially in the lower parts, which prevents close cropping by animals grazing on the plants.
When pastured reasonably close, cropping would probably be preferable, as there would then be less waste from the treading of the plants.
The cropping of the plants by stock, in the influence which it exerts upon the plants, is akin to that which arises from cutting them back frequently during the summer.
This was the last, and, quite satisfied with their load, they made their way steadily on toward the nearly perpendicular rocks where the coal had been discovered cropping out from the face.
A coal vein cropping out of the cliff-side, ready for us to come with picks, sacks, and sledges to carry off as much as we like.
Here and there brushwood grew among out-cropping rock, and catching sight of what looked like a stripe of woven fabric beneath a brake, he strode towards it.
By day their cattle hung about the corrals, cropping the grass down to the dust, or if they did wander farther afield, came galloping madly back to the smudges.
At first there was the cropping of the horses and mules, as they feasted on the fresh shoots of the abundant growth, owing to the moisture beneath the little dry river-bed having kept the coarse grasses pretty succulent.
Among other scars he wore one inflicted by a saber cut, dealt so furiously that, after cropping the boilermaker's left ear, it plowed through his cheek and carried away the tip of his nose.
There is still work for them to do in cropping the bloody field of heresy!
It was a patch of rockcropping up from the summit of a sand-hill that fell away from it on all sides, and was just about the size required for the zareba.
Does he go about cropping heads, for example, like a man in a flower garden?
Then there were eight flat wicks that led up through a perforated sheet of iron from the oil tub, each cropping out overhead by an old-fashioned thumbscrew feed.
So far I have been able to discuss the present labour situation without any use of this empty word, but when one finds it cropping up in every other article on the subject, it becomes advisable to point out what Syndicalism is not.
We knew that the buffalo must be very close, for we could hear the measured cropping of their teeth upon the grass.
In the valley bordering our little skirt of trees we could hear the horses cropping the short, juicy buffalo grass, and trailing their lariat ropes around a circle, of which the pin was the center.
In Germany the petty-bourgeois class, a relic of the sixteenth century, and since then constantly cropping up again under various forms, is the real social basis of the existing state of things.
Abnormally purposeful perhaps, a cropping out no doubt of heredity, he had set a high mark for himself and was already striving toward it.
It was a cropping out of the strange aloofness for which Hawthorne was marked.
At last, what should I see between the trees but a crayther with big horns cropping the grass all alone.
My horse was standing quietly cropping the remainder of the grass, though there was little enough he could manage to reach.
Wild horses and wild donkeys, or "burros," frequent these great wastes, cropping the vegetation that grows on the oases.
The spring had opened auspiciously; the cattle, sheep, and horses were cropping the juicy young grass; and the air was balmier than usual.
Evidence of this is found cropping up in many places in Japan, where he shattered his friendships with English and Japanese alike; and it is already made clear in his Letters.
It poured with rain after mid-day, and we were glad to discover a seam of coal cropping out in the stream, and make a huge roasting fire.
A lead cropping out at Gatho is from ten to twenty feet in thickness.
They reported great ledges of out-cropping coal in the hill-country, and that thousands of tons had broken off and fallen to the foot of the cliffs.
An officer who is appointed to guard hedges, and to keep cattle from breaking or cropping them, and whose further duty it is to impound animals found running at large.
