summer-fallowing

But it's a relief to converse about something besides summer-fallowing and breaking and seed-wheat and tractor-oil and cows 'teats.

The Prairie Mother Arthur Stringer 1912

Peter, who has reluctantly forsaken the windmill and learned to run the tractor, is breaking sod and summer-fallowing for me.

The Prairie Mother Arthur Stringer 1912

Olie and Dinky-Dunk talk about summer-fallowing and double-discing and drag-harrowing and fire-guarding, and I'm beginning to understand what it all means.

The Prairie Wife Arthur Stringer 1912

Helen supposed he was summer-fallowing, but did not understand the dust, because when she last passed the spot the soil looked dark and firm.

The Girl from Keller's Harold Bindloss 1905

This fact may be considered an argument against the use of summer-fallowing; but it is not conclusive in my mind.

Talks on Manures A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Between the Author and the Deacon, the Doctor, and other Neighbors, on the Whole Subject Joseph Harris 1860

But in summer-fallowing, we clean the land, and the _profits_ from a crop of 30 bushels per acre every other year, are much more than from two crops of

Talks on Manures A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Between the Author and the Deacon, the Doctor, and other Neighbors, on the Whole Subject Joseph Harris 1860

No one ever advocates summer-fallowing land every other year, and sowing nothing but wheat.

Talks on Manures A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Between the Author and the Deacon, the Doctor, and other Neighbors, on the Whole Subject Joseph Harris 1860

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.

Talks on Manures A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Between the Author and the Deacon, the Doctor, and other Neighbors, on the Whole Subject Joseph Harris 1860

In the grain-growing districts we get it in part by summer-fallowing, and I believe the dairyman might often do the same thing with advantage.

Talks on Manures A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Between the Author and the Deacon, the Doctor, and other Neighbors, on the Whole Subject Joseph Harris 1860

“But I can not afford to wait for clover, and summer-fallowing,” writes an intelligent New York gentleman, a dear lover of good stock, who has bought an exhausted New England farm, “I must have a portion of it producing good crops right off.”

Talks on Manures A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Between the Author and the Deacon, the Doctor, and other Neighbors, on the Whole Subject Joseph Harris 1860