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  • These are the farmering households that practice swidden farming.

    FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PATCH CULTIVATION AND SWIDDEN FARMING PRACTICES 2007

  • Then out to see where Henry and some of the men were clearing the garden; for it was plain there was to be no work today indoors, and I must set in consequence to farmering.

    Vailima Letters 2005

  • I wrote two pages, very bad, no movement, no life or interest; then I wrote a business letter; then took to tootling on the flageolet, till glory should call me farmering.

    Vailima Letters 2005

  • "When I was a boy the farmers used to say, 'If it will cover a crow's back on the Fourth of July, it will make good corn,' and I am farmering with old saws when I can't find new ones."

    The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm John Williams Streeter

  • The ancient took another look at me and said to himself in a loud whisper, after the manner of old and favoured serving-men, "A farmering body all but his hat, and none o 'your ride-by-nights."

    The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

  • Isn't it funny what farmering instincts the budding spring awakens in even the most urban souls?

    Dear Enemy Jean Webster 1896

  • Her shanna 'have a poor farmering chap, not even if her were a Carnishman.

    Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor 1862

  • "'Vot's that for?' says I."'Vot are you a shootin' at my pigeons for? 'says a great hulking, farmering-looking fellow.

    Sketches — Volume 02 Robert Seymour 1818

  • "'Vot's that for?' says I."'Vot are you a shootin' at my pigeons for? 'says a great hulking, farmering-looking fellow.

    Sketches — Complete Robert Seymour 1818

  • Her shanna’ have a poor farmering chap, not even if her were a

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

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