tilth

• Dry Farminga type of farming practiced in arid areas without irrigation by planting drought-resistant crops and maintaining a fine surface tilth or mulch that protects the natural moisture of the soil from evaporation.
• Still the pictures, which formed themselves at intervals, as we wound along these barren ridges, were very fair to look upon, especially one, not far from S. Quirico. It had for foreground a stretch of tilth--olive-trees, honeysuckle hedges, and cypresses. —  New Italian sketches
• The land should be in good tilth, and capable of producing a good crop of any sort. —  Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement
• The surface of the land is in good tilth, especially if the legume was planted in rows so that cultivation could be given. —  Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement
• About the middest of Aprill you shall beginne to fallow that part of your ground, which you entend shall take rest that yéere, and so become your fallow or tilth-field. —  The English Husbandman The First Part: Contayning the Knowledge of the true Nature of euery Soyle within this Kingdome: how to Plow it; and the manner of the Plough, and other Instruments

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