haulm

• “Another concession made by the farmer to the men was that each man was allowed after harvest a load of "haulm," or wheat stubble, left in the field from reaping time.”

  Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King

• “This "haulm" was useful not only for lighting fires with, but, like the bean stubs, for heating those capacious brick ovens in the old chimney corners, in which most of the cottagers then baked their own bread.”

  Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King

• “If, however, the straw, or "haulm," as it is more commonly called, is to be fed to live stock, the more quickly that the threshing is done after harvesting, the more valuable will the haulm be for such a use.”

  Clovers and How to Grow Them

• “Not much knitting was done (a few rounds), and not much gardening (I threw some pea and poppy haulm from last year into the burn).”

  Archive 2009-01-01

• “Mr. Swipes recommended dead pea-haulm, with the sticks left in it to ensure a draught.”

  Springhaven

• “Cowpea haulm was used as fodder for feeding animals and livestock.”

  1. Designing integrated pest management for sustainable and productive futures.

• “Viruses are particularly difficult to control; methods include (in addition to the use of virus-free planting material) rogueing and destroying infected plants, control of aphids by insecticides, and, when potatoes are being grown for seed tubers, early destruction of the haulm.”

  Chapter 25

• “Except for occasional use of the dried haulm, there is only scattered information on the deliberate use of the winged bean plant as a livestock food.”

  3 Food Use and Nutritive Value

• “Asparagus haulm should also be cut and carried off the ground, and the beds dunged.”

  The Present Picture of New South Wales (1811)

• “The name has been got from _healm_, or _haulm_, straw, and _leac_,”

  Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure

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