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Definition of Rattoons
1. rattoon [v] - See also: rattoon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rattoons
Literary usage of Rattoons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Tropical Agriculture by Henry Alfred Alford Nicholls (1906)
"On very rich soil, the rattoons have been known to produce crops for twenty years,
the canes having been cut annually, and the stoles allowed to throw up ..."
2. Philippine Tariff: Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of by Sereno Elisha Payne, William Howard Taft, United States War Dept (1906)
"You are quoted as saying second rattoons yield as much as first rattoons. When did
you ever compare any first and second ..."
3. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Containing a Clear Exposition by Andrew Ure (1853)
"Instead of stocking up his rattoons, holing, and planting the land anew, the
planter suffers the stoles to continue in the ground, and contents himself, ..."
4. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines by Andrew Ure (1858)
"Instead of stocking up his rattoons, holin?, and planting the land anew, the
planter suffers the stoles to continue in the ground, and contents himself, ..."
5. Bulletin by Puerto Rico Federal Experiment Station, Mayaguez (1909)
"The number of rattoons and suckers left to bear the next crop depends on the
bedding and richness of the soil. Usually two are left to each plant. ..."
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