Definition of Tasseling

1. tassel [v] - See also: tassel

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tasseling

taskmistress
taskmistresses
tasks
taskwork
taskworks
taslet
taslets
tasmania
tasmanian

Literary usage of Tasseling

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. School and Home Gardening: A Text Book for Young People, with Plans by Kary Cadmus Davis (1918)
"The de-tasseling of puny stalks is done on the westerly side or the ... De-tasseling of Alternate Rows.—When pollen scatters from the tassels of corn it may ..."

2. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1871)
"He feeds by scattering on the grass in pasture, not commencing before the tasseling of the corn, and sometimes not till autumn. ..."

3. Biennial Report by Kansas State Horticultural Society (1899)
"Corn grew rapidly this week, and in Chautauqua began tasseling; oats, barley and rye in fine condition: clover and alfalfa haying in the central counties ..."

4. Agricultural Meteorology: The Effect of Weather on Crops by John Warren Smith (1920)
"This brings the maximum water requirement of corn when it is tasseling and earing. The requirement continues high for four or five weeks, then falls off ..."

5. Rural School Agriculture: Exercises for Use with Any Text-book of by Charles Wesley Davis (1907)
"With the chart below as a model, construct a graphic chart showing the tasseling and silking period. Supposed Data: Total' number of tassels to appear each ..."

6. Rural School Agriculture: Exercises for Use with Any Text-book of by Charles Wesley Davis (1907)
"With the chart below as a model, construct a graphic chart showing the tasseling and silking period. Supposed Data: Total number of tassels to appear each ..."

7. Feeds and Feeding: A Hand-book for the Student and Stockman by William Arnon Henry (1910)
"The plants increased continuously in dry matter from tasseling to full ripeness, ... At tasseling, on July 30, the crop was nearly 90 per ct. water and only ..."

8. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1903)
"Corn grew very rapidly ; it continued tasseling in the southern and some central ... Corn was laid by in several counties; tasseling became more general ..."

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