Word Finder - manure

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Animal excrement, especially that of common domestic farm animals and when used as fertilizer. Generally speaking, from cows, horses, sheep, pigs and chickens.

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Any fertilizing substance, whether of animal origin or not; fertiliser.

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Rubbish; nonsense; bullshit.

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To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.

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To apply manure (as fertilizer or soil improver).

example

The farmer manured his fallow field.

They actually had some horse manure boxed up and ready to ship.

Have manure put up in heaps and mixed with earth."

The discovery of the uses of the bare fallow and of manure, by making it possible to raise crops from the same area for an indefinite period, marks a stage of progress.

Add in some well rotted cow manure and mix the soil up well.

Other industries are the manufacture of cellulose, artificial manure, flour and malt; and there are saw-mills, iron foundries and breweries in the town.

For turnips bone manure is invaluable.

The most suitable soil is a light, sandy loam enriched with well decomposed manure, in a rather moist situation.

The chief industries of Grimsby are shipbuilding, brewing, tanning, manufactures of ship tackle, ropes, ice for preserving fish, turnery, flour, linseed cake, artificial manure; and there are saw mills, bone and corn mills, and creosote works.

Both the quantity and the quality of the produce, and consequently its feeding value, must depend greatly upon the selection of the best description of roots to be grown, and on the character and the amount of the manures, and especially on the amount of nitrogenous manure employed.

Its industrial establishments include factories for tobacco, cloth, matches, leather, artificial manure, besides breweries and distilleries.

Although good crops may follow the application of lime, the latter is not a direct fertilizer or manure and is no substitute for such.

Bagged and dehydrated cow manure may also be purchased at stores if no local, free sources are available.

Once you are ready to plant your crowns, apply a three inch layer of compost and manure on top of the soil.

Malt-dust is an active manure frequently used as a top-dressing, especially for fruit trees in pots.

Bones are employed as a manure with decided advantage both to vegetable crops and to fruit trees, as well as to flowers.

Guano is a valuable manure now much employed, and may be applied to almost every kind of crop with decided advantage.

Pigeon dung approaches guano in its power as manure.

Liquid manure, consisting of the drainings of dung-heaps, stables, cowsheds, &c., or of urine collected from dwelling houses or other sources, is a most valuable and powerful stimulant, and can be readily applied to the roots of growing plants.

The price, however, is generally so high that its use is practically nil, except in small doses as a liquid manure for choice pot plants.

The value of wood ashes as a manure very much depends upon the carbonate and other salts of potash which they contain.

Gas lime, after it has been exposed to the air for a few months is an excellent manure on heavy soils.

The ash may be used as manure.

Soot forms a good top-dressing; it consists principally of charcoal, but contains ammonia and a smaller proportion of phosphates and potash, whence its value as a manure is derived.

Common salt acts as a manure when used in moderate quantities, but in strong doses is injurious to vegetation.

For the destruction of weeds on gravel walks or in paved yards a strong dose of salt, applied either dry or in a very strong solution, is found very effective, especially a hot solution, but after a time much of it becomes washed down, and the residue acts as a manure; its continued application is undesirable, as gravel so treated becomes pasty.

In the second case all roots that have struck downwards into a cold uncongenial subsoil must be pruned off if they cannot be turned in a lateral direction, and all the lateral ones that have become coarse and fibreless must also be shortened back by means of a clean cut with a sharp knife, while a compost of rich loamy soil with a little bone-meal, and leaf-mould or old manure, should be filled into the trenches from which the old sterile soil has been taken.

As a rule, all the fibrous-rooted herbaceous plants flourish in good soil which has been fairly enriched with manure, that of a loamy character being the most suitable.

The soil should consist of about 3 parts turfy loam, i part leaf mould, I part coarse silver sand, with enough chemical or other manure added to render the whole moderately rich.

Surface dressing and feeding by liquid manure should also be afforded these plants while the fruit is swelling.

He relies mainly upon the best stable manure, a few shallow frames about 4z ft.

During the winter season narrow beds are made up of manure, either quite fresh or mixed with old manure, according to the amount of heat required.

These beds are covered with a few inches of the fine old mould obtained from the decayed manure of previous years.

Besides an abundance of water in summer there must also be an enormous quantity of good stable manure available during the winter months.

The borders must be covered sufficiently deep with leaves or manure to prevent the soil from freezing, as it would be destruction to the vines to start the shoots if the roots were frozen; hence, when forcing is begun in January, the covering should be put on in November, before severe frosts begin.

But little can be done in the northern states except to prepare manure, and get sashes, tools, &c., in working order; but in sections of the country where there is little or no frost the hardier kinds of seeds and plants may be sown and planted, such as asparagus, cabbage, cauliflower, carrot, leek, lettuce, onion, parsnip, peas, spinach, turnip, &c. In any section where these seeds can be sown in open ground, it is an indication that hotbeds may be started for the sowing of such tender vegetables as tomatoes, egg and pepper plants, &c.; though, unless in the extreme southern states, hotbeds should not be started before the beginning or middle of February.

Manure that is to be used for the crop should be broken up as fine as possible, for the more completely manure of any kind can be mixed with the soil the better the crop will be, and, of course, if it is dug or ploughed in in large unbroken lumps it cannot be properly commingled.

Lawns can be raked off and mulched with short manure, or rich garden earth where manure cannot be obtained.

Lawns may be benefited by a good dressing, in addition to the manure, of some reliable commercial fertilizer.

If short, thoroughly-decayed manure can be spared, a good sprinkling spread over the lawn will help it to a finer growth next spring.

It is the rapid spread of these yeast-conidia in manure and soil waters which makes it so difficult to get rid of smuts, &c., in the fields, and they, like the ordinary conidia, readily infect the seedling wheat, oats, barley or other cereals.

In the basic Bessemer process phosphorus is readily removed by oxidation, because the product of its oxidation, phosphoric acid, P 2 O 5, in the presence of an excess of base forms stable phosphates of lime and iron which pass into the slag, making it valuable as an artificial manure.

Where water is used, as in dry and hot countries, simply as water, less is generally needed than in cold, damp and northerly climates, where the higher temperature and the action of the water as manure are of more consequence.

The water used may be turbid or clear, and it acts, not only for moistening the soil, but as manure.

In warping the suspended solid matters are of importance, not merely for any value they may have as manure, but also as a material Warping.

The silt deposited after warping is exceedingly rich and capable of carrying any species of crop. It may be admitted in so small a quantity as only to act as a manure to arable soil, or in such a large quantity as to form a new soil.

On the coasts of Europe marine algae detached by the autumnal gales are commonly carted on to the land as a convenient manure.

Then come establishments for making tobacco, gloves, chocolate, artificial manure, cement, varnish, chemicals and pottery.

Principal exports are grain, coal and fish; imports are bones and bone-ash, manure stuffs, linseed, salt, timber and iron.

Its geographical distribution is of the widest, and its rapidity of breeding, in manure and dooryard filth, so great that, as a carrier of germs of disease, especially cholera and typhoid, the house-fly is now recognized as a potent source of danger; and various sanitary regulations have been made, or precautions suggested, for getting rid of it.

Fish are extensively used for manure, especially in Muscat, where they are also fed to cattle without unpleasant results.