There were no farmers or peasants among them, and when they had finished their fort none of them thought of clearing the land and sowing corn.
But they never thought of tilling the ground and sowing seed to provide bread for the future.
It was now April, and high time for the colonists to be back on their farms sowing their corn.
But there were some who viewed it as the sowing of dragons' teeth.
Page 226] What a harvest might have sprung from the sowingof such seed in such soil by an imperial husbandman!
He perhaps thinks, however, that Vienna presents more favorable soil for sowing the seeds of a general peace.
We have been sowing what Rousseau was permitted to sow and from which was reaped the French revolution.
But the next day he continued sowingseeds of anarchy.
Sowing wild oats was one of the misdeeds of Loki, the Scandinavian mischief-God.
You need not say the earth has to be levelled and ploughed beforesowing the seed.
Then, the first time we saw a farmer sowing his fields, we should have been ready to say, "What a foolish man that is!
He is evidently speaking here of a farmer sowing his fields with grain.
And we, seeing our little faith, became strong in heart, and from that time we are sowing His grain.
Peter was pleased; for he understood that his sowing had fallen on an additional field, that his fishing-net had gathered in a new soul.
The sowinghad yielded rich fruit, but Satan had trampled it into the earth.
But meanwhile from below, in the field soaked in blood and tears, rose the sowing of Peter, stronger and stronger every moment.
He tells how he converted legs of mutton into excellent hams by pickling and smoking them; and how he also obtained preserves of melons, by sowing seeds which produced abundantly.
He had been sowing dissension in the camp from an early period.
Thus before the autumn work of cleaning the land and sowing the winter corn commences, we find a record of "twenty-four pairs of shoes" given out, which are charged to the convent account at 2s.
The sisters did not think it necessary to enter among the payments the value of the farm and garden produce they consumed, beyond the cost of sowing and gathering into their barns.
It is essential, in sowing seeds now, that they be well firmed in the soil.
Any who expect to get early cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce or radishes, while planting or sowing is delayed until the time of sowing tomato and egg plant in May, are sure to be disappointed of a full crop.
Form and repair lawns and grass walks by laying turf and sowing perennial grass-seeds; mow the lawns frequently; plant evergreens.
American Wonder or other peas in the beginning and end of the month; early cabbages to follow the last sowing in August; red cabbages and savoys towards the end.
In any section where these seeds can be sown in open ground, it is an indication that hotbeds may be started for the sowing of such tender vegetables as tomatoes, egg and pepper plants, &c.
The two last-named must not be applied direct to growing crops, but to the soil some weeks in advance of sowing or cropping.
If the plants are started early in the greenhouse, they are likely to spend themselves before fall, and therefore a later sowing should be provided.
Spinach, corn salad, radishes and carrots are the favourite crops for sowing between others such as lettuces and cauliflowers.
These are the wide fields, and here is the deep and quick soil for the seeds of knowledge and virtue; and this is the favored season, the very spring-time for sowing them.
Then there was threshing, and the sowingof winter wheat and rye.
However, from this time until 1945, a young man's university days were regarded as a period for the "sowing of wild oats".
All persons shall kill crows on their land to prevent them from eating so much grain at sowing and ripening time and destroying hay stacks and the thatched roofs of houses and barns.
They sold grain for making oatmeal or for sowing one's own ground.
And he ought to harrow for two days at the Lenten sowing with one man and his own horse and his own harrow, the value of the work being 4d.
It is men, it is ourselves, who interfere with our sowing and reaping time; it is ourselves, who ambitiously seek to grow grain we can never rear, or it is others who maliciously sow tares in a soil they too quickly overrun.
They perfectly understood the nature of the soil, the art of irrigation, and the time for sowing and harvesting, a knowledge they acquired partly from their ancestors and partly by their own experience.
Fellow, you will find that you and your men will be charged with piracy, for you have been sowing death and destruction in the seas.
While naval craft have been searching everywhere for submarine mine-layers, this skipper has been sailing openly on the seas and sowing mines right under the eyes of our allies!
And yet, for hire, you and your men have been engaged in sowing mines, and have taken pay from Germany for your crimes.
The time of year was anything but propitious forsowing grass seed, but we planted it, none the less, trusting that in such a low, moist spot it might make a catch.
Half the fun insowing flower seeds comes from your hope of achieving those golden promises held out by the seed catalogues--like a second marriage, alas!
Reaching my farm at eight, I found Joe harrowing in manure on the garden and Mike sowing peas.
We had a half-blood in our company, who was used as a rival to El Lobo in gathering any information that might be afloat, and at the same time, when opportunity offered, in sowing the wormwood of jealousy.
I managed to romance about for two or three months, sowing turnip seed and teaching dancing-school.
Science, also, has found a world of work in ministering to the needs of agriculture, and in a hundred different ways the new farmer finds helps that have sprung up from the broadcast sowing of the hand of science.
If experiment is to be likened to plowing, the work of the schools may be compared to sowing and cultivating.
