单词 | crop rotation |
释义 | > as lemmascrop rotation crop rotation n. see rotation n. 4a. crop rotation a. Agriculture. The practice or system of regularly changing the crops grown on a piece of ground in successive years, according to a definite order, typically to preserve the quality of the soil. Also: a particular sequence of crops grown according to this system. More fully crop rotation. Cf. course n. 31.The introduction of crop rotation into England (from the Netherlands) is attributed to Charles, 2nd Viscount Townsend (‘Turnip Townsend’: 1674–1738). 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 1757 R. Maxwell Pract. Husbandman 226 The Potatoes, Turnips, or Cabbages..to be succeeded by Pease, Beans, or Tares, any of which leads back to Barley, Clover, Wheat, and Pease again in a Round or Rotation. 1765 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry V. Index p. xix The necessity of a change of crops demonstrated and the most proper rotation of them pointed out. 1778 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. Digest 76 A regular rotation of Crops and Fallow is, perhaps, more convenient than profitable. 1792 A. Young Trav. France 346 The miserable rotations commonly practised in France. 1811 Communications to Board Agric. VII. i. xxiii. 163 The best husbandry in Mr. Hill's opinion is the alternate use of the five and of the six crop rotation. 1832 Edinb. Rev. July 339 It is the Reviewer's trade to sit watching, not only the tillage, crop-rotation, marketings and good or evil husbandry of the Economic Earth, but also [etc.]. 1874 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. I. iii. 50 The proper rotation of crops and fallow might be observed. 1912 Bull. Bureau Plant Industry, U.S. Dept. Agric. No. 260. 55 This difficulty does not seem to be encountered when the cantaloupe or the cucumber is selected as the initial crop in the rotation. 1955 F. G. Ashbrook Butchering, Processing & Preserv. Meat ii. 35 Farms on which the crop rotation includes wheat, corn, buckwheat,..and similar seed-producers are especially attractive to upland game birds. 1971 C. Johansen in R. E. Pfadt Fund. Appl. Entomol. (ed. 2) vi. 178 Certain kinds of crop rotations may aid in the control of pests. 2007 R. Lovegrove Silent Fields ii. 40 In the pre-enclosure era, the huge open fields around the nucleated villages..supported a rotation of arable crops, fallows, and meadowland. < as lemmas |
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