Besides plentifully supplying the London market, they are frequently sold at sixpence a bushel to farmers for manuring purposes.

And as for his fields, well, that was a pretty dowry that his wife had brought him, land in which nothing more would grow, and which, however much one might water it with one's sweat, did not even pay for manuring and sowing.

The mode of manuring the land is similar to that practised in Brabant, and the produce proves that it is excellent; for no better meadows, or corn land in a higher state of cultivation are to be seen than in some parts we have lately passed through.

It must be known that, in order to save himself the trouble of manuring his field, the Corsican husbandman sets fire to a piece of woodland.

The land does not require manuring.

The days now were occupied in field work and more field work; he cleared new bits of ground, getting out roots and stones; ploughing, manuring, harrowing, working with pick and spade, breaking lumps of soil and crumbling them with hand and heel; a tiller of the ground always, laying out fields like velvet carpets.

The plough is more used, and the expedients for manuring land are less laborious.

The plough is more used, and the expedients for manuring land are less laborious.

Do you recollect," continued my friend, "in which of Charlotte Smith's novels it is that she describes an eccentric old gentleman manuring his ground with wigs?

Manuring of fields was already known in Shang time.

Others were the improvement of manuring methods, the breeding of mules, the building of public bridges, the erection and management of a textile factory, the launching of a cottonseed oil mill, of which his talents might have made a success even in that early time had not his untimely death intervened.

Our mariners were quite a fortnight preparing, manuring, and sowing their parterre, which, when complete, occupied fully half an acre in the very centre of the crater, Mark intending it for the nucleus of future similar works, that might convert the whole hundred acres into a garden.

Yet often it seems as if the injudicious gardening and manuring were worse than none at all; and killed what the inclemencies of blind chance would have spared.

But no man can tell, by bare inspection, as yet, to which class of turnips, the more or less watery, his own may belongwhether that which is apparently the most prolific may not in reality be the least sowhether that mode of manuring his land which gives him the greatest weight of raw roots may not give him the smallest weight of real substantial food for his stock.

I am far from intending to persuade my countrymen to quit all other employments for that of manuring the ground.

It is by manuring the land, with the dung of their cattle, that the Negroes raise pretty good crops of sorgho.

If the clods are turned over the grass will rot and help to improve the ground; new land thus treated will not require manuring the first year.

To ensure sound, crisp, fleshy roots they require to be grown quickly, therefore moist soil and liberal manuring is necessary, and the ground kept free from weeds.

Of manuring, XXXIX.

Of manuring XXXVIII.

[Footnote 32: The occupants of the motor cars which now roll so swiftly and so comfortably along the French national highway from Paris to Tours, through the pleasant pays de Beauce, can see this admirable and economical method of manuring still in practice.

Varro (I, 23) explains the Roman method of green manuring more fully than Cato.

[Footnote 81: Green manuring is one of the oldest, as it is one of the best, of agricultural practices.

Continue digging over and manuring the flowering borders.

Yet that great soul our novelists impeach; 40 Too much manuring fill'd that field with weeds, While sects, like locusts, did destroy the seeds; The tree of knowledge, blasted by disputes, Produces sapless leaves instead of fruits; Proud Greece all nations else barbarians held, Boasting her learning all the world excell'd.