Word Finder - growers

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A farmer; one who grows things.

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He was an orange grower from Florida.

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Something that grows.

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These flowers are fast growers

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Someone or something who becomes more likeable over time

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I didn't like the song at first, but it is a real grower.

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A man whose penis does not show its full size until it is erect.

The numbers of growers decreased from 139,000 in 1891 to 124,000 in 1905.

The hulls thus burned produced an ash containing an average of 9% of phosphoric acid and 24% of potash - a very valuable fertilizer in itself, and one eagerly sought by growers of tobacco and vegetables.

By the Maidstone growers the best plants are considered to be obtained from layers.

For the slender twiggy sorts the fan form is to be preferred, while for strong growers the half-fan or the horizontal is more suitable.

The declining prices that have operated against the growers of wheat should be studied in conjunction with Table III., which shows, at intervals of five years, the imports of TABLE III.

Hundreds of acres of wheat are lost annually in America by the ravages of the Hessian fly; the fruit flies of Australia and South Africa cause much loss to orange and citron growers, often making it necessary to cover the trees in muslin tents for protection.

A simple method of increasing the yield is that practised with success by some growers in the States.

Irrigation, introduced in 1888 by the orange growers, has been adapted by other farmers, especially the tobacco-growers of Gadsden county, and so the evil effects of the droughts, so common from February to June, are avoided.

The U.S.A. Department of Agriculture, in co-operation with local growers, devoted a great deal of attention and money to the problem, and Sumatra tobacco of very high quality is now produced in Florida and Connecticut.

The plants are slow growers and must have plenty of sun heat; they require sandy loam with a mixture of sand and bricks finely broken and must be kept dry in winter.

The high price received by the hill growers of the Burley induced farmers in the Blue Grass to plant Burley tobacco there, where the crop proved a great success, more than twice as much (sometimes 2000 lb) being grown to the acre in the Blue Grass as in the hills and twice as large patches being easily managed.

Members of the pool had used force to bring planters into the pool; and now some tobacco growers, especially in the hills, planted new crops in the hope of immediate return, and a new " night-riding " war was begun on them.

Whilst objecting to the prevention of the export of wool, he proposes a tax on that export as somewhat less injurious to the interest of growers than the prohibition, whilst it would "afford a sufficient advantage" to the domestic over the foreign manufacturer.

Yearling sets are largely planted, but the experiments of Krabe tend to prove, and the practice of the best Midland and West of England growers confirms, the superior productiveness of sets cut from two yearling rods.

Robertson, led to the Macdonald-Robertson Seed Growers' Association.

The principal cereals cultivated are Indian corn (product, 53,75 0, 000 bushels in 1908) and wheat; the cultivation of the latter, formerly remunerative, declined on account of the competition of the Western States, but revived after 1899, largely owing to the efforts of the Georgia Wheat Growers' Association (organized in 1897), and in 1908 the yield was 2,208,000 bushels.

Many gardeners are still afraid to disturb an unsuitable subsoil, but experienced growers have proved that by bringing it up to the surface and placing plenty of manure in the bottoms of the various trenches, the very best results are attained in the course of a season or so.

The fact that rents are so heavy around Paris is in itself an indication of the money that is realized by the growers not only in the Paris markets, but also in Covent Garden.

The area under cotton increased enormously, and the growers managed to retain in their own hands a fair share of the profit.

The linen manufacture by degrees ceased to be a domestic industry, and began to centre in and become the characteristic factory employment of special localities, which depended, however, for their supply of raw material primarily on the operations of small growers, working, for the most part, on the poorer districts of remote thinly populated countries.

Owing to greater care on the part of growers, and the introduction of FrenchAmerican resistant stocks to replace vines attacked by the phylloxera, the wines in the early years of the 10th century again acquired a limited sale in England.

The industry received a powerful stimulus from the loss of the Spanish colonies in 1898, which freed the Spanish growers from the rivalry of their most successful competitors in the home market.

Only the most dedicated growers will garner the highest accolades this year!

One reason for this is that the gains of export and production have largely accrued to traders and middleman, but not to growers.

British farmers and growers producing food bearing the logo are independently inspected under a range of farm assurance schemes.

In autumn 2000 cabbage stem flea beetles were found in the Borders - posing a potentially serious new problem for growers in Scotland.

National Farmers Union for Wales Organization for farmers and growers in Wales, including a calender of shows and events.

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The Nash family were fruit growers, producing grapes under huge glass cloches that could be rolled into place on a rail track.

The Bolivian peasant coca growers, again mostly Quechua, have organized a mass movement in their own defense.

Cadbury currently buys cocoa on the spot market, which includes cocoa from growers who may still be using lindane.

When cocoa growers produce a better yield of high quality cocoa beans, everyone benefits.

Palm growers supply cut palm fronds, without harm to growing trees.

Other alliances, with organic food growers and protectionist food organizations in France and England, created a Juggernaut against GM food.

It is used all over the world by growers who want an accurate source of mineral nutrition.

What are the effects on their strategy if local opium growers attempt to produce illegal opium on their own?

Growers could only protect their trees from tristeza by not using sour orange rootstocks, which are highly susceptible to the virus.

These fast growers do need checking tho before they get too vigorous so prune regularly.

Australian wine producers do n't whinge about having to compete on an uneven playing field with French wine growers.

The contract with British Sugar was in an instant rendered as worthless as toilet paper and the beet growers lost thousands of pounds.

All the pioneer work has been done in America; in fact, until the South-Eastern Agricultural College undertook the elucidation of this subject, little was known of it in England except by a few growers.

Russians, with experience in beet-growing, and Japanese are furnished by the sugar company to the growers for the bunching, thinning, hoeing and topping of the beets.

The planters in the Black Patch had met a combination of the buyers by forming a pool, the Planters' Protective Association, into which 40,000 growers were forced by " night-riding " and other forms of coercion and persuasion, and had thus secured an advance to I I cents a pound from the "regie " buyers and had shown the efficacy of pooling methods in securing better prices for the tobacco crop. Following their example, the planters of the Burley formed the Burley Tobacco Society, a Burley pool, with headquarters at Winchester and associated with the American Society of Equity, which promoted in general the pooling of different crops throughout the country.

From the 1999 harvest, tobacco growers wishing to leave the sector must offer their quota allocation to other producers.

German rape growers apply trace elements as insurance treatments every year.

Kayonza is a co-operative of 4,000 smallholder growers - 14% of whom are women.

Fair trade choccies; small-scale cocoa growers in Ghana own a chocolate company in the UK.

Conventional soybean growers have used cover crops successfully in conjunction with herbicides to reduce cultivation and control weeds.

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