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Definition of Cover crop
1. Noun. Crop planted to prevent soil erosion and provide green manure.
Definition of Cover crop
1. Noun. Any of several crops planted between others in order to prevent erosion and to improve soil quality (especially by adding nitrogen) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cover Crop
Literary usage of Cover crop
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915)
"The cover-crop adds humus and protects the land from puddling and baking in the
... Usually the cover-crop is plowed under in spring at the very earliest ..."
2. Biennial Report by Oregon Board of Horticulture (1905)
"It is of no use as a cover crop. Crimson clover.—During the fall this was about
the same as the mammoth clover. It survived the winter all right, ..."
3. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1908)
"In fact, the ideal cover crop should make all of its growth in fall and early
... In short, whenever you can grow a cover crop of any kind In an orchard, ..."
4. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1907)
"The effect of the cover-crop on the land will depend, to some degree, on the root
habit of the crop. The clovers are very deep rooters (Fig. ..."
5. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1902)
"At the last cultivation sow some kind of a cover crop, as no orchard should go
through ... There are several good reasons for the sowing of this cover crop. ..."
6. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"If the trees are growing slowly on mellow and friable soil, it will probably be
advisable to use a nitrogenous cover-crop. If, on the other hand, ..."
7. The American Apple Orchard: A Sketch of the Practice of Apple Growing in by Frank Albert Waugh (1908)
"The cover crop is nowadays considered to be an important—in fact, ... The term
cover crop stands for any sort of annual crop sown among fruit trees during ..."
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