Summer-fallow Definition

verb

To plough and work in summer, in order to prepare for wheat or other crop; to plough and let lie fallow.

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noun

Land uncropped and plowed, etc., during the summer, in order to pulverize the soil and kill the weeds.

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Summer-fallow Sentence Examples

  • The summer fallow with repeated ploughing was its basis.

  • Wheat on summer fallow land yielded, according to the NorthWest census of 1906, from 2 to 8 bushels per acre more than that sown on other land.

  • In their cultivation he adopted Tull's practice of drilling and horse-hoeing, and he was also the founder of the Norfolk or four-course system, the first of those rotations which dispense with the necessity of a summer-fallow and provide winter-keep for live-stock (see below, Rotation of Crops).

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