The ordinary Corne soiles continue not fertile, with fallowing and foyling, and the best requires supply, euen for the little body of Corne.
There's the fallowing to be got on with; I suppose nothing must interfere with that.
By getting as much summer fallowing as possible done on the second quarter-section.
What I had heard and read of fallowing now came back to mind.
It would give them more pasture and plenty of land to carry on the fallowing method.
On the sagging couch leaning against the hot wall, he sat wiping the perspiration from his face as I told him more of the fallowing idea.
All around Ammons the fields lay freshly turned, fallowing for next year's crop.
Huey Dunn's plan of mellowing, or rotting the soil, was not yet the true fallowing method.
From other farmers scattered here and there who had tried the fallowing plan I got records of methods and results.
In the years of experimenting, the fallowing system underwent a number of changes.
He had dug a well, and his method of fall plowing--fallowing he called it--had proved successful.
The great convenience of steam cultivation is that full advantage can be taken of a short spell of hot, dry weather for fallowing operations, and the soil is left so hollow that it soon bakes and kills the weeds.
The doctrine has, therefore, been rather widely disseminated that fallowing has no place in the dry-farming of the Great Plains area and should be replaced by the growing of hoed crops.
King concludes, therefore, that one of the advantages of fallowingis to increase the moisture content of the soil.
Where the precipitation comes during the growing season, as in the Great Plains area, fallowing for the storage of water is less important than where the major part of the rainfall comes during the fall and winter.
The necessity for frequent fallowing or resting periods over a large portion of the dry-farm territory further decreases the average annual yield.
It is the purpose of this chapter to state the findings of practical men with reference to the value of plowing andfallowing in producing large crop yields under dry-farm conditions.
Considerable doubt has recently been cast upon the doctrine that one of the beneficial effects of fallowing in dry-farming is to store the rainfall of successive seasons in the soil for the use of one crop.
These results teach clearly and emphatically that the fertile condition of the soil induced by fallowing makes it possible to produce dry matter with a smaller amount of water than can be done on soils that are cropped continuously.
Weeds consume water and fertility and, therefore, fallowing and all the culture must be perfectly clean.
The chief reluctance to accept clean summer fallowing as a principle of dry-farming appears chicfly among students of the Great Plains area.
However, any system of dry-farming that omits fallowing wholly from its practices is in danger of failure in dry years.
Potatoes are well adapted for use in rotations, where summer fallowing is not thought desirable.
And a distinguished farmer, of this State, in a recent communication expressed the same idea--that summer-fallowing would soon impoverish the land.
If no more grain is sold in one case than in the other, the summer-fallowing will not impoverish the soil any more than corn growing.
Clover and summer-fallowing were for many years the dependence of the Western New York wheat-growers.
Mr. Johnston has been in the habit of summer-fallowing largely for wheat, generally plowing three, and sometimes four times.
Of course, a farmer who has nice, clean sandy soil, will not think of summer-fallowing it.
No one ever advocates summer-fallowing land every other year, and sowing nothing but wheat.
In May it was time to set up the temporary fences round the meadows and arable fields, and to begin fallowing the third field.
He considered fallowing and manure unnecessary, and grew without manure 13 successive wheat crops on the same piece of ground, getting better crops than his neighbours who pursued the ordinary course of farming.
Nay, we may even doubt whether the practice of fallowing had been universal[1338].
Summer fallowing for wheat is a practice that has gained ground in the North-West Provinces.
Summer fallowing is, however, subject to one drawback: the strong growth which it induces is apt to retard the ripening of the grain.
The principal factors governing wheatgrowing in Australia are:-- Conservation of soil moisture by fallowing the land.
Fallowing was a practice rarely deviated from by the Romans.
Your local advisers are probably right as to the necessity for summer-fallowing in order to conserve moisture from a previous year's rainfall and to get the land otherwise into good condition.
It would, however, be a good start for summer-fallowing and a big crop the next year.
Will dry-plowing now cause a worse growth of filth after the rains than the customary fallowing in the spring?
But it's a relief to converse about something besides summer-fallowing and breaking and seed-wheat and tractor-oil and cows' teats.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fallowing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cultivation; culture; dressing; listing; thinning; working
