On all soils with a moderate proportion of clay, no fear need to be entertained of valuable fertilizing substances becoming wasted if the manure cannot be plowed in at once.
It is usually kept over winter in the open barn yard (rarely under cover, I am sorry to say), laid out on the land about the time of disappearance of last snow, and plowed in.
And as all this produce was consumed on the farm, we made more manure than if we hadplowed less land.
But in this section, a summer-fallow, plowed two or three times during the summer, is becoming more and more rare every year.
The fish, when applied to corn, are placed two at each hill, and plowed under at any time after the corn is large enough to cultivate.
In spring, as soon as practicable, it is spread, and plowed under immediately.
But I do not suppose it would have the same effect when a small quantity of manure is mixed with a large amount of sand, as is the case when manure is applied to land, and plowed under.
He has taken a run-down farm, and a year ago last spring he plowed up ten acres of a field, and sowed it to barley and oats.
Mr. Johnston is thoroughly convinced that he gets far more benefit from the manure when applied on the surface, and left exposed for several months, than if he plowed it under at once.
The manure made during the winter, was drawn out in the spring, and plowed under for corn.
After I've plowed the garden, I'll furrow out deep a lot of rows, three feet apart.
Planting an acre of potatoes was no light task for us, even after the ground was plowed and harrowed, and the furrows for the rows were marked out.
So we exchanged labors, and by the time the garden was plowed and the furrows were made I had scraped up enough fine material in the barnyard to give my tubers a great start.
By this course I soon had space enough cleared for ten rows of strawberries; and on the 6th of August Mr. Jones came and plowed the land deeply, going twice in a furrow.
I confess that I did not like the looks of the sky or of the snow- flakes that began to whirl in the air, but the strong steamer plowed her way rapidly past the city and the villa-crowned shores beyond.
All the older and newer invasions have left their traces, and wherever an alien army has come, it has plowed its way with the sword into the life of these impressionable people.
Sombre Jews come, on whose faces fear and care have plowed deep furrows, whose backs are bent beneath the burden of law and lawlessness.
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.
In fields that are plowed or cultivated between the times of egg-laying and hatching, the eggs are destroyed.
Later these plants are plowed in and a second crop is planted.
Beyond the wall a new-plowed field lies steaming in the sun, And down the road a merry group of children Run toward the village school.
The soil was of equal natural fertility and each field received about the same quantity of manure, though that given A's was all well decomposed and worked into the soil, while that given B's was fresh and raw and simply plowed in.
She walked steadily a little in front of him across the plowed field.
Here was the world in which he had lived; here the plowed field, the high road yonder, and Mary, stripping ivy from the trees.
I am glad that the Concord farmers plowed well this year; it promises that something will be done these summers.
Compost, better part of man soon plowed into soil for, =2=, 6.
He had got the upland and the orchard and a part of the meadow plowed by Warren, at an expense of eight dollars, still unpaid, which of course is no affair of yours.
The mighty armored hull plowedinto the rocks like some gigantic meteor, the hundreds of thousands of tons crushing the rocky precipice, grinding it to powder, and shaking the entire hill.
In moments the plane had been brought to rest, but it had plowed through twenty feet of rock for nearly an eighth of a mile.
Clays, or clayey loams, should always be manured and plowed in the fall, just before the setting in of the winter frosts.
At the instant Miss Patricia was descending from her tractor and was soon standing in the center of her freshly plowed field.
Talking without any special significance, the Camp Fire guardian had observed that Miss Lord and Mary Gilchrist were no longer standing alone in the freshly plowed field not far from the farmhouse yard.
A giant mesquite tree, piled high with clinging drifts, rose up before the crest of his wave, and as he plowed in between them the edge of the crest poured down in a whispering cascade.
What power had uprooted it he was at a loss to conjecture but, a full ton in weight, it had jumped from its frame and plowed its way down through the mill.
To prevent the pupils getting lost in the tall grass of the prairies, furrows were plowed from the settlers' cabins to the school house.
With one strong butt he hoisted her clear of the fence, landing her on all fours on the soft, plowed ground on the other side.
It crossed the ground he had already plowed on the west side of the field and entered the furrow; then swung around with its side toward him.
He dropped his tools and rushed across the plowed field, when he saw Edith hurrying toward him as fast as she could walk over the newly-plowed ground.
He plowedeach furrow a foot or more deep, so as to outline the edges of the trench and keep the top as narrow as possible.
When dinner time came he brought the machine to a standstill on the west side of the field nearest to the barn, and, shutting down the motor, came quickly over the freshly plowed ground to the barnyard.
The same hands held the account-book and the sword; the same ships plowed the sea for trading and for war.
Five hundred years before Columbus crossed the Western Ocean Icelandic barks had plowed their way, first to Greenland, then to the American mainland.
The spur, pressed down by the weight of the animal, hadplowed up the ground.
The sea, loaded with phosphoric light, opened beneath the hulls of the barks which transported the baggage and munitions; every dip of the prow plowed up this gulf of white flames; and from every oar dropped liquid diamonds.
He was biting his white mustache, and wiping off, with his left hand, the dust which the passing balls threw up from the ground they plowed near him.
If not plowed until the spring, care should be taken not to plow until it has dried out sufficiently to crumble from the plow, instead of making a wet, pasty furrow.
Where the old garden is to be plowed up, if there has not been time to get in one of the cover crops suggested elsewhere in this text, plow as late as possible, and in ridges.
And I know that next spring's crop of rye, before it is plowed under, will show the lines of demarcation just as plainly.
If it is near a supply of water, so situated that it can be at least plowed and harrowed with a horse, and large enough to allow the garden proper to be shifted every other year or two, still more the better.
When the field was plowed up in the fall, all three sections were as distinctly noticeable as though separated by a fence.
His naked shoulders, his thick neck, and bullet head were all that showed above the flower stems as he plowed his way through them directly toward me; but the hand he swung aloft to aid his progress held a knife.
A narrow swath had been cut through the palms--a furrow of death plowed by the pressure of my thumb against a bit of metal!
They plowed through the sand at a breakneck pace, Tom hanging on for dear life.
He plowed slowly through the clinging sand, traveling most of the time on low gear.
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