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Definition of Manures
1. manure [v] - See also: manure
Lexicographical Neighbors of Manures
Literary usage of Manures
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cultivator by New York State Agricultural Society (1848)
"The Law of manures. We notice that the question—" Do Manure» Ascend or Descend?
... It obviously does both ; and so it is with manures, unless the term ..."
2. First Report to the Cotton Planters' Convention of Georgia, on the by Joseph Jones (1860)
"CHAPTER X. Methods of Applying Calcareous manures— ... *An Essay on Calcareous
manures, by Edmund Ruffin. Fifth edition. JW Randolph, Richmond, Va , 185'2. ..."
3. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1865)
"The ancient Grecians understood the value of green manures, for Xenophon, their
countryman, a man celebrated as a historian, a general, and a philosopher, ..."
4. An Encyclopædia of Agriculture: Comprising the Theory and Practice of the by John Claudius Loudon (1826)
"As certain salts are also constantly found to be present in healthy living
vegetables, manures or vegetable food may, consequently, be distinguished into ..."
5. Proceedings of the International Conference on Plant Hardiness and by Daniel Hall (1912)
"... for Root Crops— Leguminous Crops: Beans, Clover, Lucerne, Sainfoin— Value of
Potassic Fertilisers—Grass Land—Effect of manures in changing the Botanical ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Experiments on an actual course of rotation, without manure, and with different
manures, have also been made. Wheat, barley, oats, beans, clover and other ..."