What is "yields"

Usage examples of "yields".

For I do not see what it makes for the safety, good morals, and certainly not for the dignity, of men, that some have conquered and others have been conquered, except that it yields them that most insane pomp of human glory, in which "they have received their reward," who burned with excessive desire of it, and carried on most eager wars.

Hawaiian labor corvees built elaborate irrigation systems for taro fields yielding up to 24 tons per acre, the highest crop yields in all of Polynesia.

The bands' food staple is the sago palm tree, whose core yields a starchy pith when the palm reaches maturity.

First, as any modern gardener or farmer still knows by experience, crop yields can be greatly increased by manure applied as fertilizer.

All other things being equal, people seek to maximize their return of calories, protein, or other specific food categories by foraging in a way that yields the most return with the greatest certainty in the least time for the least effort.

As I've already discussed, food production tends to lead to increased population densities because it yields more edible calories per acre than does hunting-gathering.

Early farmers would have discovered by trial and error that they could obtain higher yields by tilling and watering the soil and then sowing seeds.

Compared with taro and other presumably older New Guinea root crops, the sweet potato can be grown up to higher elevations, grows more quickly, and gives higher yields per acre cultivated and per hour of labor.

Band numbers are kept low by diseases (especially malaria), by the lack of raw materials in the swamp (even stone for tools must be obtained by trade), and by the limited amount of food that the swamp yields for humans.

Once established in New Guinea, the sweet potato overtook taro as the highland's leading crop, because of its shorter time required to reach maturity, higher yields per acre, and greater tolerance of poor soil conditions.

As I’ve already discussed, food production tends to lead to increased population densities because it yields more edible calories per acre than does hunting-gathering.

Once established in New Guinea, the sweet potato overtook taro as the highland’s leading crop, because of its shorter time required to reach maturity, higher yields per acre, and greater tolerance of poor soil conditions.

For every man, however laudably he lives, yet yields in some points to the lust of the flesh.

For, not to delay on such a difficulty as this, if both are tempted equally and one yields and consents to the temptation while the other remains unmoved by it, what other account can we give of the matter than this, that the one is willing, the other unwilling, to fall away from chastity?

Where, then, is the justice of man, when he deserts the true God and yields himself to impure demons?