Word Finder - farming

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To work on a farm, especially in the growing and harvesting of crops.

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To devote (land) to farming.

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To grow (a particular crop).

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To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; to farm out.

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to farm the taxes

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To lease or let for an equivalent, e.g. land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.

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To take at a certain rent or rate.

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To engage in grinding (repetitive activity) in a particular area or against specific enemies for a particular drop or item.

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To cleanse; clean out; put in order; empty; empty out

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Farm out the stable and pigsty.

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The business of cultivating land, raising stocks etc.

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A farming operation; a farm, or instance of farming on a piece of land.

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Pertaining to the agricultural business.

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Raising livestock or fish.

The conversation drifted from farming to the weather.

The farming industry is not, however, on a satisfactory basis.

Those who argue they should not say there is no way for poor countries to compete with mechanized Western farming and the extremely high yields it produces.

The village is situated in a farming country, about 1700 ft.

You can be a subsistence farmer and perhaps produce some excess, but given the prior observation about the fundamental volatility of farming, you will always be at risk of not producing enough.

The plateau portion of West Virginia is largely covered by hardwood forests, but along the Ohio river and its principal tributaries the valuable timber has been removed and considerable areas have been wholly cleared for farming and pasture lands.

Beside the local trade of a rich surrounding farming country, the railway facilities of St Joseph have enabled it to build up a great jobbing trade (especially in dry goods), and this is still the greatest economic interest of the city.

This same technology will allow farming to be much, much more efficient.

When Nicholas first began farming and began to understand its different branches, it was the serf who especially attracted his attention.

The important silk industry, however, began to revive about 18go, and dairy farming is prosperous; but the condition of the vilayet is far less unsettled than that of Macedonia, owing partly to the preponderance of Moslems among the peasantry, and partly to the nearness of Constantinople, with its Western influences.

Manual labour in farming operations began to be superseded by the use of drills, hay-makers and horse-rakes, chaff-cutters and root-pulpers.

The chief wheat lands are in Victoria, South Australia and New South Wales; the yield averages about 9 bushels to the acre; this low average is due to the endeavour of settlers on new lands to cultivate larger areas than their resources can effectively deal with; the introduction of scientific farming should almost double the yield.

In the cotton belt of the United States it would be possible to put a still greater acreage under this crop, but the tendency is rather towards what is known as " diversified " or mixed farming than to making cotton the sole important crop. Cotton, however, is in increasing demand, and the problem for the American cotton planter is to obtain a better yield of cotton from the same area, - by " better yield " meaning an increase not only in quantity but also in quality of lint.

Direct collection of taxes by imperial procurators was substituted for the system of farming, and a special official (advocatus fisci) was instituted to look after the interests of the imperial treasury.

It is situated in a good farming and cattle-raising region, irrigated by water from the Rio Grande.

The mining industry on which the town formerly depended is extinct, but the district is agricultural and dairy farming is carried on, while the town has flour mills, tanneries and iron foundries.

For many years there has been a reaction against the all-cotton farming system.

With the growing of grasses as the chief agricultural product, farming in Nevada is necessarily extensive rather than intensive.

Bee - farming is commonly prosecuted.

The surrounding country is devoted to farming and stock raising.

He was one of the first to use oil-cake and bone-manure, to distinguish the feeding values of grasses, to appreciate to the full the beneficial effects of stock on light lands and to realize the value of long leases as an incentive to good farming.

In central Alberta coarse grains - oats and barley - and some wheat are grown, in conjunction with mixed farming.

It had worked, on the whole, satisfactorily; and between 1885 and 1895 the number of peasants farming their own land rose from 117,000 to 200,000.

Gracchus ordered that the taxes, direct and indirect, should be increased, and that the farming of them should be put up to auction at Rome.

The borough is built on level ground elevated several feet above the river, and in the midst of an attractive farming country.

The university stands in its own grounds on the site of Grose Farm, the scene of one of the earliest attempts at government farming.

Moreover while large areas on the high veld are suitable for the raising of crops of a very varied character, in other districts, including a great part of the low veld, arable farming is impossible or unprofitable.

Fruit farming is a thriving industry, the slopes of the plateaus and the river valleys being specially adapted for this culture.

A department of agriculture was established in 1902, and through its efforts great improvements have been made in the methods of farming.

Its habits much resemble those of the rest of the group to which it belongs; and, like the leopard, when it happens to come within reach of an abundant and easy prey, as the sheep or calves of an outlying farming station, it kills far more than it can eat, either for the sake of the blood only or to gratify its propensity for destruction.

The city carries on a considerable jobbing business for the farming region of which it is the centre and produce market.

It is the centre for a farming region, in which there are deposits of coal, iron, lead and shale, and there are various manufactures in the city.

The chief local industry is farming, and an annual fair is held in September for the sale of live stock.

Antigo is the centre of a good farming and lumbering district, and its manufactures consist principally of lumber,chairs,furniture,sashes,doors and blinds, hubs and spokes, and other wood products.

It is a shipping centre for the products of the farming and dairying region in which it lies, but it is most widely known for its educational institutions.

Besides farming and fishing, the inhabitants carry on a coasting trade with various Mediterranean ports.

For the next six years he lived in St Louis, Missouri, earning a scanty subsistence by farming and dealings in real estate.

The city is situated in a rich farming region; is an important shipping point for livestock, grain and other farm products; and is especially known as a centre for the manufacture of wire-fences.

It is in a rich farming and stock and poultry-raising region, has a large poultry-packing house and various manufactures.

It is in a picturesque farming country, and there are good limestone quarries in the valley of the Des Plaines river.

A Dutch periodical called Elpis, algemeen tijdschrift voor Zuid Afrika (1857 -1861) appealed to the farming community.

It is the largest city in eastern Oregon, and is the centre of important mining, lumber, farming and live-stock interests.

Dairy farming is largely practised in the neighbourhood.

The city is in the Kansas-Oklahoma oil and gas field, and is surrounded by a fine farming and dairying region, in which special attention is given to the raising of small fruit; oil, gas, cement rock and brick shale are found in the vicinity.

Vancouver lies in a region of extensive forests and of fruitgrowing and farming lands; among its manufactures are lumber products, barrels, condensed milk, flour, beer and canned f_uit.

Ethically it is the loftiest, and Isaac obtains his wealth simply through his successful farming.

This was, in its day, a colossal undertaking; and its success transformed Holyoke from a farming village into a great manufacturing centre - in 1900 and 1905 the ninth largest of the commonwealth.

In a small outlying mound de Sarzec discovered the archives of the temple, about 30,000 inscribed clay tablets, containing the business records, and revealing with extraordinary minuteness the administration of an ancient Babylonian temple, the character of its property, the method of farming its lands, herding its flocks, and its commercial and industrial dealings and enterprises; for an ancient Babylonian temple was a great industrial, commercial, agricultural and stock-raising establishment.

Columbia is in a fine farming region; is engaged extensively in the mining and shipping of phosphates; has an important trade in live-stock, especially mules; manufactures cotton, lumber, flour, bricks, pumps and woollen goods; and has marble and stone works.

On his retirement he settled in Devonshire as a small landowner, and contemplated a farming life for his son Frederick, giving him a practical training to that end.