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Manuring

Manure \Ma*nure"\ (m[.a]*n[=u]r"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Manured (m[.a]*n[=u]rd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Manuring.] [Contr, from OF. manuvrer, manovrer, to work with the hand, to cultivate by manual labor, F. man[oe]uvrer. See Manual, Ure, Opera, and cf. Inure.]

  1. To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture. [Obs.]

    To whom we gave the strand for to manure.
    --Surrey.

    Manure thyself then; to thyself be improved; And with vain, outward things be no more moved.
    --Donne.

  2. To apply manure to; to enrich, as land, by the application of a fertilizing substance.

    The blood of English shall manure the ground.
    --Shak.

Manuring

Manuring \Ma*nur"ing\, n. The act of process of applying manure; also, the manure applied.

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manuring

n. An application of manure. vb. (present participle of manure English)

Usage examples of "manuring".

The loss in manuring matters, which is incurred in keeping manure-heaps exposed to the weather, is not so much due to the volatilization of ammonia as to the removal of ammoniacal salts, soluble nitrogenized organic matters, and valuable mineral matters, by the rain which falls in the period during which the manure is kept.

The relation between abundant manuring and soil inoculation is worthy of more careful study, in the judgment of the author, than has yet been accorded to it.

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.

Practically speaking, all the essentially valuable manuring constituents are preserved by keeping farm-yard manure under cover.

It was a very light manuring, but the manure was rich, and thoroughly rotted.

Hence, the universal practice of manuring, and that also of consuming oil-cake, corn, and similar purchased food on land naturally poor, or partially exhausted by previous cropping.

It is not a difficult matter, by selecting the largest roots for seed, and by liberal manuring, and continuously selecting the largest roots, to convert the sugar-beet into a mangel-wurzel.

A few days ago, a neighbor, a very intelligent farmer, assured me that from manuring eight to ten acres every year, his farm was now in better condition than when be broke up the prairie fifteen years ago.

Without guano, or very high manuring, wheat will deteriorate year after year, if sown upon the same soil, until the product would not pay for the labor of sowing and harvesting.

In the fall, the field was sown with wheat, manuring heavily from the barn yard, adjoining the guano, but not spread on the two lands, or on the boned portion of the field.

We add a few more extracts mainly to show that deep ploughing, and plentiful manuring, are the sure guarantee of bountiful crops.

In manuring, therefore, do as well by them as by your heaviest crop of large drumhead cabbage, using rich and well-rotted manure, broadcast, with dissolved bone or ashes, or both, in the drill.

They do not require so strong a soil or such high manuring as other varieties of the cabbage family.

We have a shorter season but a brighter sun, and if we do not have richer grass it is due to the want of draining, clean culture, and manuring.