Tend the soil

Usage examples of plow.

As for the ship, she might run hard aground again even closer to shore than last time, plowing shoreward as fast as she was coming now.

Having stilled its immemorial allocution to the moon, the watch-dog was assisting a negro who, prefixing a team of mules to the plow, was flatting and sharping contentedly at his task.

It was a record of a laser message that had come plowing through the Pak system, torn and attenuated and garbled by dust clouds and distance, in a language no longer spoken.

He relaxed the checking pressure on the bit and let the gray dun start down the slope to the hollow where the homesteader was plowing up the virgin sod.

On land that has been very highly manured for a series of years, cabbage can be planted nearer than on land that has been under the plow but a few years.

In the case of clay soils, I have no hesitation to say the manure may be spread even six months before it is plowed in, without losing any appreciable quantity in manuring matter.

In the case of very light sandy soils, it may perhaps not be advisable to spread out the manure a long time before it is plowed in, since such soils do not possess the power of retaining manuring matters in any marked degree.

The larger stores either had or contracted for plows, blowers and melters, which were simply road fusers set on low heat.

If a musher escapes chance encounters with heavy equipment, he cannot escape the surface of the road, which, constantly frozen and re broken by huge plows, is carpeted with boulders, jagged ice cakes, sharp rocks, and clods of frozen dirt.

Deforestation, overgrazing, plowing, or other stripping of the vegetative cover lessens the possibility that rain will be slowed down and stopped so that it may seep into the soil, subsoil and the underground waterways.

A chair had been overset, the rug lay in folds as if plowed up by struggling feet, and scattered over it were many bits of shattered porcelain, remnants of a five hundred dollar Satsuma vase, though Vanaman could not know that.

Some precede alfalfa on such soils by growing cow peas or soy beans, followed by crimson clover, both crops being plowed in, and shortly before sowing the alfalfa they apply more or less of phosphoric acid and potash, which is usually incorporated in the surface soil by the harrow.

On some soils, as in some parts of Florida, two successive crops of cow peas should be plowed under before sowing alfalfa.

The ship, running sub-space and pilotless, plowed headlong into the next gravitic twister and broke up.

Olhado nodded then, and they followed Plower into the young forest until they came to the very place where once Nimbo had taken part in the burning of an ancient mothertree.