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Definition of Manuring
1. n. The act of process of applying manure; also, the manure applied.
Definition of Manuring
1. Verb. (present participle of manure) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Manuring
1. manure [v] - See also: manure
Lexicographical Neighbors of Manuring
Literary usage of Manuring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1865)
"BY preen manuring wo mean the sowing, growing, and ploughing down of some ...
ANCIENT GREEN manuring. Some people have an idea that green manuring is a new ..."
2. The Southern Planter (1852)
"In both these cases, the third year's growth according to its quantity and kind,
is made more or less manuring—while the other objections still remain. III. ..."
3. Agriculture in the Tropics: An Elementary Treatise by John Christopher Willis (1914)
"Even in a country like Ceylon, where vegetable matter is cheap and easily obtained,
manuring is by no means common among the natives, though in the far ..."
4. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1907)
"From these observations Huber concludes that the droplet must be liquid excrement
and that the fungus owes its growth to this method of manuring. ..."
5. Census Reports Tenth Census. June 1, 1880 by Francis Amasa Walker, Charles Williams Seaton, Henry Gannett (1884)
"But little green manuring is practiced, though with cow-pease and clover the ...
Green manuring results in an increase of the following crop only (Polk). ..."
6. The Natural Laws of Husbandry by Justus Liebig (1863)
"toni of farm-yard manuring ; the different ... a thorough investigation of all
those phenomena which are presented by the practice of farm-yard manuring. ..."
7. Lectures on Agricultural Chemistry and Geology by James Finlay Weir Johnston (1843)
"Green manuring— ploughing in of spurry, the white lupin, the vetch, ... Natural green
manuring. Improvement of the soil by laying down to grass and by ..."