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Definition of Cropping
1. crop [v] - See also: crop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cropping
Literary usage of Cropping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"... JULY 20, 1917 CONTENTS The Next Step in Improvement in Wheat cropping :
PROFESSOR HL ... under the general cropping and marketing processes now in use. ..."
2. The Principles of Vegetable-gardening by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1901)
"Double-cropping is of two species: (1) succession- cropping, or the growing ...
In selecting crops for succession-cropping, the following principles must be ..."
3. The Book of the Landed Estate: Containing Directions for the Management and by Robert E. Brown (1869)
"This form of cropping-map is very useful to the agent or land- steward who has
to look after the rotations of the different farms on an estate. ..."
4. Dairy Farming by George Frederick Warren, Clarence Henry Eckles (1916)
"cropping SYSTEMS ON DAIRY FARMS 200. Principles of a Good cropping System. ...
The usual cropping system is : Corn or other tilled crops on sod land for one ..."
5. The Suburban Horticulturist: Or, An Attempt to Teach the Science and by John Claudius Loudon (1842)
"Successional cropping is that in which the ground is wholly occupied with one
crop at one time, ... The object to be attained by a system of cropping is ..."
6. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1852)
"It is not mere cropping alone with grain, that causes a deterioration in our soils.
The flesh, wool, hair, horns, bones, butter, cheese, produced by grazing ..."
7. The Corn Crops: A Discussion of Maize, Kafirs, and Sorghums as Grown in the by Edward Gerrard Montgomery (1913)
"cropping systems in the United States undergo evolution from the time when new
land is opened up to the time when it reaches a permanent agricultural basis. ..."
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