fallow

• There may be days or weeks that are fallow, and sometimes even years that are years of famine. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters
• The course of the crops is bad indeed--fallow, rye, oats. —  Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808
• On my own farm I seldom summer-fallow, and never plow under clover. —  Talks on Manures A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Between the Author and the Deacon, the Doctor, and other Neighbors, on the Whole Subject
• But you do not think you can afford to summer-fallow, and you want to raise thirty or forty acres of potatoes every year I propose to do so,” he replied. —  Talks on Manures A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Between the Author and the Deacon, the Doctor, and other Neighbors, on the Whole Subject
• If you succeed in getting a good burn for your fallow, the chances are, if your plan-heaps are well made, that they will be mostly consumed, which will save a great many blows of the axe, and some heavy logging CHAPTER VIII A LOGGING BEE. —  Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West The Experience of an Early Settler (Volume I)

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