summer fallowingn.

1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. ix. 23 Wilde Oates pestering and pilling of Tilthes, are best destroyed by Summer fallowings.

1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ 9 For the same reason are the Summer Fallowings advantagious to the Husbandman.

1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 79 In Staffordshire they often give their lands a Winter fallowing, besides the three summer fallowings.

1798 Oracle & Public Advertiser 31 May We particularly approve, and indeed, give our testimony to the truth of Lord D.'s observations on Summer Fallowing, paring and burning (both of which practices are to be followed under several restrictions and limitations).

1834 Preston Chron. & Lancs. Advertiser 5 Apr. I felt satisfied that by trenching with the spade the land would derive all the advantages of a summer fallowing, and avoid all the disadvantages attending it.

1866 Trans. Glasgow Archæol. Soc. 1 400 Hesioďs..details about summer fallowing, manuring, sowing, and reaping, and the like, are just such as are thought sensible at the present time.

1905 Pop. Sci. Monthly Nov. 623 A field..is much more fertile the year after the summer-fallowing has been done.

1966 Bull. Atomic Scientists Dec. 45/1 If it is decided in Moscow that the wheatlands are to be plowed deeply, seeded densely, and there is to be no summer fallowing, that is the way the wheatlands are cultivated.

1978 Amer. Jrnl. Agric. Econ. 60 760/2 The increasing recognition that current cropping and summer-fallowing patterns may be leading to serious loss of soil fertility.

2012 Dominion Post (Wellington, N.Z.) (Nexis) 5 Apr. 4 He talked of how they cared for the precious water supply and protected the land—summer fallowing of some paddocks, being tough on weeds, not tilling the soil.