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Example sentences for "poor land"

  • Sow seed on poor land; the plants will be straighter, more hardy, and less affected by insects.

  • Plant corn on poor land, and it will mature and yield a small crop.

  • On poor land, one bushel of seed is required for an acre, while half a bushel is sufficient on rich land, where stalks grow large.

  • On poor land, for a flax crop three bushels per acre, applied after the plants were up, and when wet, produced a great crop.

  • Its friends regard it as a promising forage crop, but too little is definitely known to permit its advocacy here except as a soil-builder in the case of poor land that is not too deficient in lime to permit good growth.

  • Their ability to secure nitrogen for their own growth in poor land also is a prime consideration in their selection for soil improvement, assuring a supply of organic matter where otherwise partial failure would occur.

  • It is adapted to wet land, and yet is one of our surest grasses for dry and poor land.

  • Omit any chapter or section that does not bear on your crops or does not deal with conditions in your state.

  • These three kinds of plant food are ordinarily all that we need to supply.

  • In cold, bleak climates, as well as on poor land, the seeding should be early.

  • Alfalfa, however, unlike the cowpea, does not take to poor land.

  • Fortunately, however, nitrogen, the most costly of the plant foods, can be readily and cheaply returned to poor land.

  • I fertilize sometimes, I think it beneficial and would advise it on poor land.

  • For market, I prefer Ben Davis and Jonathan on poor land; and Missouri Pippin and Winesap on rich land.

  • I think it advisable to use fertilizers on poor land.

  • This method, however, has proved to be a mutually unsatisfactory arrangement and is usually limited to hard pressed owners of poor land.

  • When they stopped on the area of poor land as designated by Mr. West, Percy had turned his auger into the earth and drawn out a sample of moist soil, which he molded into the form of a ball.

  • Soils do not wear out; there is no poor land; the farms are better and the crops larger than ever before; and we are the people of the world's greatest nation, with an assured future glory which surposses all conception.

  • Perhaps that is because it is used to it," suggested Percy, "used to making the struggle for itself on poor land.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    fast asleep; improved earth; little group; poetical composition; poor body; poor child; poor children; poor dear; poor father; poor heart; poor lord; poor mamma; poor mother; poor niece; poor relation; poor relations; poor scholar; poor servant; poor soil; poor uncle; poor wife; poor wretch; poor young; presently said; time there; word like