| 单词 | convertible husbandry |
| 释义 | > as lemmasconvertible husbandry 7. convertible husbandry: that which consists in a rotation of crops, whereby the pasture of one year is converted into the corn-land of another, and so on. convertible land (dialect): see quot. (Cf. Penny Cycl. II. 228.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > [noun] > rotation of crops rotation1757 course1767 succession1779 turnip-system1805 convertible husbandry1811 four-field course1842 1811 J. Taylor Remarks Present State Devon in T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (new ed.) p. vi Admirably adapted to the convertible husbandry, as it is called. 1833 H. Martineau Brooke & Brooke Farm (ed. 3) viii. 97 Convertible husbandry was quite out of the question. 1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 43 The greatest benefit he derived from guano, and..a regular plan for bringing all his more sterile upland into the system of Convertible husbandry by its aid. 1863 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. (new ed.) I. Convertible land, loamy soils. < as lemmas |
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