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Definition of Fallowing
1. fallow [v] - See also: fallow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fallowing
Literary usage of Fallowing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cyclopædia;: Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature.by Abraham Rees by Abraham Rees (1819)
"See fallowing of Land. ... fallowing is adopted. The vague ancient opinion of
the ufe of nitre, and of nitrous faits in ... fallow or fallowing, a period is ..."
2. General View of the Agriculture of the County of Kent: With Observations on by John Boys (1805)
"fallowing. THERE is not any part of agriculture which has occasioned more discussion
and controversy among writers on husbandry, than this subject of ..."
3. Irrigation and Drainage: Principles and Practice of Their Cultural Phases by Franklin Hiram King (1918)
"INFLUENCE OP SUMMER fallowing ON SOIL MOISTURE AND ON PLANT-FOOD In a ... on the
influence of summer fallowing on the water content of the soil, ..."
4. First Principles of Soil Fertility by Alfred Vivian (1908)
"CHAPTER VIII SUMMER fallowing Origin of fallowing.—The practice of fallowing
or "resting" the land is a very old one, being mentioned in the twenty-fifth ..."
5. General view of the agriculture of the county of Sussex by Arthur Young (1808)
"fallowing. fallowing very generally prevails in the stiff soils 9f Sussex, where,
it is thought, no corn could be had without this necessary preparation. ..."
6. An Economical History of the Hebrides and Highlands of Scotland by John Walker (1808)
"fallowing. fallowing was in use among the ancients, antf has been practised by
all the moderns, who have made any remarkable progress in the cultivation of ..."
7. Bacteria in Relation to Country Life by Jacob Goodale Lipman (1908)
"The partisans of bare fallows have tried, within recent years, to justify the
practice by the claim that, during the period of fallowing, ..."
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