| 单词 | tilling |
| 例句 | “So many ignorant lands in need of my knowledge. I will teach them the glories of tilling, irrigation, fertilizing!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “It’s what we call the guys workin’ their butts off in the Gardens— tilling, weeding, planting and such.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Daddy spends hours out here every night, planting, tilling, and talking. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Early farmers would have discovered by trial and error that they could obtain higher yields by tilling and watering the soil and then sowing seeds. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He could feel the rumble of the craft’s engines tilling the air but couldn’t make out the silver skin, the sweeping ribs, the finned tail. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z It reminds me of home, the way the field hands would sing during the worst of the work, the hard things like hoeing or tilling. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z We coordinated with the Secret Service to make sure our tilling wouldn’t disrupt any of the sensors or sight lines they needed to protect the grounds. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Everything remained the same, the dryness in the air, the dusty winds, the refugees tilling dried soil, but Kainene was not back. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z They were more friendly with Elves than the other Hobbits were, and had more skill in language and song than in handicrafts; and of old they preferred hunting to tilling. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “There are rewards in caring for sheep, and there are rewards for tilling the soil, but the greatest calling is to be a priest,” he said. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Deep tilling of the soil isn't a good idea unless you are facing the kind of ground we have here in the Gardens of Glenwood. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Once one band settled down and started tilling, whether in the Middle East or Central America, agriculture was irresistible. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes in the middle of sowing or reaping or tilling, or the innumerable tasks the land demanded, he would stop and straighten up, breathing hard and trembling. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Restoration playwrights treated Shakespeare much as he had treated his sources: as fertile soil ripe for tilling. Why We (Mostly) Stopped Messing With Shakespeare’s Language 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Goldsmith ends up tilling a lot of ground that will be familiar to Hoffa buffs. Made Man: ‘In Hoffa’s Shadow’ Replays a Famous Disappearance 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z Because tilling disturbs the soil, it facilitates erosion and runoff of nutrients and chemicals. It’s the chemical Monsanto depends on. How dangerous is it? 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z Almost a quarter-century and many a pop-lit best seller later, you might wonder what fresh insights are to be found by tilling such well-covered ground. Theater Review: ‘Rapture, Blister, Burn,’ at Playwrights Horizons 2012-06-13T02:00:01Z The small towns have names that give some indication of the hardship therein – Hazard, Viper, Defiance – and the pictures often show women, young and old, picking cotton or tilling the dusty ground. The High and Lonesome Sound: The Legacy of Roscoe Holcomb by John Cohen – review 2013-03-03T00:05:06Z He turned down all offers of promotion, preferring to work for mostly legal aid cases, doggedly tilling the soil of the legal landscape and doing his bit for justice. Six to watch: legal dramas 2011-02-22T11:49:00Z These methods are also inextricably bound to climate change, as hybrids require significantly less tilling and agricultural inputs than their Vitis vinifera counterparts. Is it possible to decolonize the wine industry? 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z The farmer profiles reveal how complex and economically vulnerable tilling the soil can be, even before you add pressures from environmental change and supply chain complications. Chef Abra Berens turns her attention to grains and legumes 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z Her vineyard is a work in progress as she has eliminated irrigation and tilling. Great Oregon Wines Beyond the Willamette Valley 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Fast forward a few million years to what looks like the American Northwest, where two apatosaurs are farming the land, tilling the soil with honest sweat and giant noses. Review: ‘The Good Dinosaur,’ Pixar Human and Apatosaurus 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z So does this mean you’ll be tilling the back 40 and investing in pricey equipment? Raise Your Own Veggies 2010-05-28T16:19:00Z Nowadays, tales of the city’s slow recovery tend to focus on plucky hipsters from Los Angeles or Brooklyn colonizing abandoned spaces, opening pickle companies or tilling little urban agriculture plots. The Lights Are On in Detroit 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z Both encouraged a permanent natural ecosystem and were against tilling. Great Oregon Wines Beyond the Willamette Valley 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z She spent four years on a kibbutz tilling the land, an experience that taught her to respect ingredients in their natural state. At Tsion Cafe in Harlem, Food From Ethiopia via Israel 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z I also use it in garden beds and, in some cases, for creating a new growing area without tilling. Perspective | The wheel hoe comes full circle 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z Advocates for regenerative agriculture, a way of farming that emphasizes building and supporting the organic matter that composes healthy soils, are dead set against age-old practices like plowing and tilling. From Good Wine, a Direct Path to the Wonders of Nature 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z On the Paridier family farm, life continues according to ancient agricultural rhythms, a daily round of chores and a seasonal cycle of tilling, planting and harvesting. Review: In ‘The Guardians,’ Trouble on the Home Front in Wartime France 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z He's tilling the same thematic ground in "Outsider Mullingar" but in an Irish context that, as a New York-born Irish American, he's avoided until now. John Patrick Shanley's 'Outside Mullingar' is just the thing for a happy cry 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z On any given day, the farmer might do a dozen different things on the land, such as tilling, planting, weeding, harvesting or adding fertilizer. Computer science can help farmers explore alternative crops and sustainable farming methods 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z The field was ready for tilling at that point.” Kurt Weill: How Germany Finally Unearthed a National Treasure 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z I was really just a farmer, like everyone else, feeding the livestock, tilling the land, plowing the fields. Carpetbagger Blog: Zhang Yimou and the Challenges of Filming in China 2011-12-21T16:44:15Z Previously, gardeners used rototillers, which would produce a fluffy soil on top but, after 50 years of tilling, created a hardpan clay beneath. The case for the no-till garden 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z Having said that, however, wait for a dry period before tilling in the lime. Q&A: Lime for the veggie garden; time for gratitude 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z In September, the parks department had to stop work on the first site planned for the garden because, while tilling the ground for the plants, they discovered rocks, glass and masonry. How a garden once lost to history is being brought back into bloom 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z Problematic soil can get stirred up by gardeners tilling, tracked into the house on shoes and, apparently, ingested in the form of produce grown in it. Are raised beds enough when lead is present? PAICINES, Calif. — This is a story about livestock and vegetation, microorganisms and tilling, ecosystems and compost, water and climate change, which, in 2022, means it’s very much about wine. Are Sheep a Crucial Ingredient for Vineyards and Ecosystems? 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z Traditional raised beds offer plenty of benefits on their own — fewer weeds, no tilling, and less bending, to name a few—and keyhole gardens offer all these same perks, plus a few extras. Is this raised bed method the "key" to gardening success? 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z FarmVille 2, like its predecessor, lets players log in free, most likely through Facebook, to begin tilling a plot of land. Video Game Review: The FarmVille 2 Video Game Is Released 2012-09-21T17:11:48Z Without herbicides, the best weed-killing tool is tilling, and that can lead to erosion, nutrient runoff and the disruption of the microbial community that organic farmers work so hard to foster. Is organic agriculture really better for the environment? 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z But of course all this tilling must be done when the soil is not waterlogged — not just to protect its structure but also to avoid soil erosion and nutrient leaching. Planting garlic? Weather conditions are key. More interesting, they are tilling an old-fashioned garden of conservative tastes. Fashion Review: Take One Last Look 2010-09-18T02:18:00Z “Getting away from tilling has done so much to absorb the water,” he said. The case for the no-till garden 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z Volunteers learn to live on an organic farm, tilling land, milking cows and taking produce to market, with the prospect of operating their own farm someday. For Taste of Farm Life, There’s No Place Like a Homestead 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z A few million years later in this Pixar movie, two apatosaurs are farming their land in the American Northwest, tilling the soil with giant noses. What’s on TV Friday 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z If using pine straw, rake it aside prior to tilling. Raise Your Own Veggies 2010-05-28T16:19:00Z At some locations, non-playable characters are seen performing tasks like baking bread, tilling a field or inscribing scrolls. Assassin’s Creed Has a New Mission: Working in the Classroom 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z Farmer Alain Doyen says that after tilling the earth in his fields, he often finds old German shells. 100 years on, buried WWI shells pose threat in French fields 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z Tester spent his break on a tractor, tilling the land for organic peas on an 1,800-acre farm that has been in the family for more than 100 years. Jon Tester could teach Democrats a lot about rural America — if he can keep his Senate seat 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z In contrast, the prairie’s diversity of plants and absence of annual tilling resulted in rich, healthy soils. Perennial wheat is an ecologist’s dream. Soon it may be what’s for dinner. 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z “Active and constant cultivation” — as in plowing or tilling — “works against maintaining a healthy soil biology,” Casteel said. To fight climate change, one winemaker wants to think about more than the grapes 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z If fields are flooded, that can hamper productivity and slow down planting or ploughing and tilling. Northern Ireland floods: What can we do to prevent more devastation? 2023-11-04T04:00:00Z In the meantime, volunteers with Friends of the Ballona Wetlands are tilling the soil and preparing to put in scores of new trees and plants to help with the environmental restoration. Column: 'Enough is enough.' Why RV encampments might finally start disappearing in L.A. 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z Tourism offered vital extra earnings for many, with few other work opportunities outside tilling the land on smallholdings. Moroccans in earthquake-hit tourist area grieve losses, fret about future 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z There’s one more big payoff that benefits everyone: tilling the soil less, and growing more cover crops, can help farmers store more planet-warming carbon in fields. Farm fields don’t just feed us. They store carbon. But a big question is how much 2023-07-15T04:00:00Z Oral history and archaeological studies suggest Indigenous people have long cultivated intertidal habitat through tilling sediment, selective harvesting and adding shells. Indigenous people from across Pacific help build Swinomish clam garden 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z And while many complain of sore throats, coughs and irritated eyes, they have mostly continued tilling the earth, tending their horses and otherwise going about life as usual. Amid the ash and threat of evacuation, life goes on under Mexico's most dangerous volcano 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Population growth was also not accompanied by an increase in cultivated land sufficient to support the added numbers of people, and in many regions, farmers found themselves tilling smaller fields as the generations passed. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z The intensification of agriculture—tilling prairie to plant corn and wheat—helped drive the original Dust Bowl, Cook has shown in his research. More Frequent Dust Storms Could Be in Our Future 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z He and others at Purdue have been studying soil samples that date back more than 40 years, comparing different types of tilling and cover crops to determine their long-term effects on carbon storage. Farm fields don’t just feed us. They store carbon. But a big question is how much 2023-07-15T04:00:00Z “It’s been very dry across this area really for the last three weeks. The farmers are out there tilling their fields and planting. The top layer of soil is quite loose.” ‘Multiple fatalities’ in dust storm crashes on Illinois highway, police say 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z No tilling, thanks — or “no dig,” as he calls this method he has popularized. Is ‘no dig’ gardening really possible? 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z They argue that carbon emissions from clearing and tilling land to farm biofuels feedstocks, such as corn or soybeans, offset any reductions in tailpipe emissions. Huge Phillips 66 biofuels project will test the industry’s green promises 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Volik pointed out a farmer in a blue tractor that was slowly tilling the black soil of his plot near Nibulon’s vast fields. In Fields Sown With Bombs, Ukraine’s Farmers Risk Deadly Harvest 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z Brad Wetli, an Indiana farmer who collaborates with Armstrong, has been trying techniques that use less tilling and has been planting cover crops like rye for a few years now. Farm fields don’t just feed us. They store carbon. But a big question is how much 2023-07-15T04:00:00Z Until then, he doesn’t know if he should be tilling his garden or planting beans. How a small-town train derailment erupted into a culture battle 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z Tilling doesn’t build soil structure, he contends; tilling destroys it. Is ‘no dig’ gardening really possible? 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z Media veterans know that deeper coverage takes time and often comes from reporters who have been tilling beats for years. Santa Cruz 'news desert'? An industry guru's digital startup challenges local rivals 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z Long-established soil preservation techniques, such as tilling less and sowing crops during off-seasons, are proving no match for more frequent droughts, floods and temperature extremes. From ashes to fly larvae, new ideas aim to revive farm soil 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z Farmers live intimately with the earth, tilling and smelling the soil, planting, tending and harvesting crops, and ending each day with the satisfaction of having accomplished something meaningful. Opinion | Want to be happy? Then don’t be a lawyer. 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z Embracing regenerative farming methods, such as reduced tilling of the soil, can retain carbon and nutrients. The New Era of Biofuels Raises Environmental Concerns 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z At stake is drinking water for 40 million people; hydroelectric power for regional markets; and irrigation for farmers tilling millions of acres of former desert, producing most of the nation’s winter vegetables. Conferees told Colorado River action ‘absolutely critical’ 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Options include not tilling soil to reduce erosion, and planting off-season cover crops to prevent erosion and nutrient loss. Dying lands: Farmers fight to save the 'skin of the Earth' 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z These lands are also the ones most subject to poor agricultural methods, such as excessive use of chemical fertilizers, over tilling and monocropping, the practice of planting just a single crop each year, experts say. In dry, unreliable weather, Indian farmers restore arid land 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z More and more, farmers are interested in not tilling their soil at all, for instance; untilled soil means reduced erosion and the preservation of its organic material. What Hurricanes Taught Puerto Rico About Feeding Itself 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z And without tilling, weeds can flourish; the researchers found that fields with PR23 needed one to two more herbicide treatments than regular rice. ‘Perennial’ rice saves time and money, but comes with risks 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z And it can be grown and harvested for several years without tilling the soil. This Shrub Could Supply Rubber, Insect Repellent and Glue 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Terracing the hills, tilling as little as possible and sowing plants like buckwheat and crimson clover prevented topsoil from eroding. Federal Government’s $20 Billion Embrace of ‘Climate Smart’ Farming 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z While soil can be a highly effective means of carbon sequestration, agricultural soils have lost much of their effectiveness from overgrazing, erosion, overuse of chemical fertilizer, and excess tilling. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z When the land began to thaw in early spring, peasants started tilling the soil with primitive wooden plows and crude rakes and hoes. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z But tilling those deep-rooted grasslands released massive amounts of underground carbon into the atmosphere. Can farmers fight climate change? New U.S. law gives them billions to try 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z Hay farmer Milan Adams said one of the fields he’s tilling in Exeter, Rhode Island, is powder a foot down. Northeastern farmers face new challenges with severe drought 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z He has also refrained from tilling his land for several years. Federal Government’s $20 Billion Embrace of ‘Climate Smart’ Farming 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z While soil can be a highly effective means of carbon sequestration, agricultural soils have lost much of their effectiveness from overgrazing, erosion, overuse of chemical fertilizer, and excess tilling. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Baba has been tilling the fields for a quarter century. Fertilizer crisis delivers profits and pain as Ukraine fallout broadens 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z When vegetation is removed, either through cutting trees or routinely harvesting crops and tilling the soil, that protection is either temporarily or permanently lost. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z She found it in tilling the Fresno fields he planted, giving away fresh food to the hungry. A Cambodian American police officer helps his community heal and look forward 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z While most make their living as farmers, much of the forest that surrounds them is considered sacred, and off-limits to tilling. Where Mantras Trump Medicine, Vaccines Are a ‘Violation’ 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z He attributes these changes to not tilling the soil and planting a variety of cover crops during the winter. Companies’ Climate Promises Face a Wild Card: Farmers 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z And techniques used in modern agriculture, like tilling, accelerate this process and allow soil to lose more of its carbon. How CRISPR rice could help tackle climate change 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z The vineyard is now farmed organically, and he intends to stop tilling the soil in an effort to build its microbial life. 200 years after impressing early French wine authorities, one Burgundy vineyard plots a comeback 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z Constantly tilling the dry earth, creating low ridges to catch restive dust particles before they can become airborne. As the Great Salt Lake dries up, Utah faces ‘an environmental nuclear bomb’ 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z Key moments in the agricultural calendar — fertilizing, tilling and, soon, planting — are passing while farmers struggle to source essential supplies, and while others have left to go fight. Ukraine’s wheat harvest, which feeds the world, can’t leave the country 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z The Mandans and similar tribes remained along the Missouri River in permanent villages composed of domed earthen structures, and combined mounted buffalo hunts with tilling corn and other crops. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z “He was tilling the ground,” said Leonard Leo, a former executive vice president of the Federalist Society, a Council for National Policy member and a close family friend of the couple’s. The Long Crusade of Clarence and Ginni Thomas 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z “It’s not just the tractors and the equipment and the chemicals,” he said, “but just the very act of tilling.” Where adventurous gardeners buy their seeds | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z The cameras and computers for automated tilling can be installed on an existing tractor and tiller machine in a day, Hindman said. Deere says its robo-tractors are ready to till the fields 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z Rochin had seen other farmers experiment with reducing nitrogen through organic practices, manures, infrequent tilling — and he found them lacking. Mexico’s wheat fields help feed the world. They’re also releasing a dangerous greenhouse gas. I tried to dig them and finally tried tilling the area. Are you sure you want to plant bamboo? Expert advice on the fast-growing plant 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Now, Eli must learn to be the farmer his father became after decades tilling the soil. For 70 years, Christmas trees were the family business. Then came drought. And fire 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z Drought has decimated the harvest, leaving many whose lives revolve around tilling the earth and raising livestock with no means to make a living. In Afghanistan, a girls’ school is the story of a village 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Farmers capture carbon by planting off-season crops, tilling the ground less and using fertilizer more efficiently. Dollars in the dirt: Big Ag pays farmers for control of their soil-bound carbon 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z You don’t want to till those cover crops, because tilling the soil releases carbon into the atmosphere, so “no till” or “minimal till” are key concepts. Carbon farming, one of the oldest agricultural practices, is growing on winemakers 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z Cover crops between vine rows, no tilling in the vineyard. Threatened by climate change, a California winemaker switches to carbon farming and hopes more vineyards join 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z Religions and school calendars were structured around the rhythms of farming: planting seeds, helping them grow, harvesting grains and then tilling the soil to prepare it for the next round of planting. Could this new version of an old grain help fight climate change and feed the world? 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z So far, Donnellan said, Bear Flag has focused its development on automating tractors for tilling fields on California farms that aim to plant two or more crops a year. Deere, Bear Flag aim to automate tractors as 'fast as possible' 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z This “ploughing” behaviour commonly disturbs soil at a depth of about five to 15 centimetres, which is roughly the same depth as crop tilling by farmers. Wild Pigs Release as Much Carbon Emissions as 1 Million Cars 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z “We should be tilling this land for the second or third time,” he said. In Tigray, food is often a weapon of war as famine looms 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z Scientific agriculture today enables the nation to feed its 330 million and to export surpluses while tilling approximately the same amount of acreage as in 1910, when there were 238 million fewer Americans. Opinion | Subsidizing America’s most important product: Innovation 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z Census of Agriculture in 2017 found more farmers were switching from conventional soil tilling, a big source of carbon pollution, to reduced or no-till practices. Carbon storage offers hope for climate, cash for farmers 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z In 2020, though, they planted their first crops of wheat and peas, which involved tilling the enormous fields. Not keen on green: Organic farm criticized for harming land 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z Instead of applying fertilizer and tilling soil — breaking it up — between cash crops, they’re planting other crops that replenish nutrients in the soil. The wastewater disaster in Florida is a symptom of how we grow our food 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z They have a community of people tilling what is now public land, living off its bounty as their forebears had for hundreds of years, she said. Climate change and corruption endanger an ancient valley in Lebanon 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z He learned gardening at a young age, watching the tilling, planting and harvesting on farms his family visited in Western Pennsylvania. Welcome to Randyland: Home he turned into an art exhibit 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z “Our work on regenerative cropping and livestock systems”—which includes tilling less, planting cover crops, and promoting beneficial insects and more diverse crop rotations—“is showing that insecticides are really not needed.” These widely used insecticides may be a threat to mammals too 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z “So here today in 2021 that there is not one Black farmer that is tilling his own soil and pulling his plow and disc harrowing the ground is disheartening.” ‘We are facing extinction’: Black farmers in steep decline 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z She rises to the challenge — cleaning houses, tilling fields, sweltering under the sun in a worn dress and braided cornrows — a Black woman whose excruciating beauty lies in toil and poverty. Cicely Tyson, an Actress Who Shattered Stereotypes, Dies at 96 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z In the 1990s, Faut stopped tilling his soil and found success. Some farmers updating methods, trying `regenerative’ farming 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z Farmers used to rely less on herbicides, instead controlling weeds using laborious methods such as tilling and manual removal. Will rising temperatures make superweeds even stronger? 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z In China, the Agricultural Green Development program works to conserve soil by avoiding tilling and by interweaving different crops to preserve biodiversity. There’s an ecosystem beneath your feet—and it needs protection, says new report 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z Sustainable techniques farmers are adopting include refraining from tilling soil at times to preserve carbon. North American farmers profit as consumers pressure food business to go green 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z Crimson clover, winter rye and vetch will grow through the winter in milder regions to provide a green manure for tilling under next spring. How to maximize the third growing season in your vegetable garden 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z From the beginning of time, the production of food, the growing of food, the nourishing of the ground, the tilling of the land, the production in all facets of food is a human practice. Lazarus Lynch on the politics and healing power of food: It's "the conduit for all beautiful things" 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z Practices include everything from using cover crops rather than tilling the land, not using pesticides and livestock grazing rotation. How a West Virginia farming family is handling the pandemic 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z Bennie Adkins, a farmer’s son eager to see the world beyond Oklahoma, had quit college twice and was facing a future either as a fry cook or tilling the land. Bennie Adkins, who received Medal of Honor for Vietnam War battle, dies at 86 of coronavirus 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z Deere said the data from the Hello Tractor platform shows how often equipment is in use, how much land it’s working, and whether it’s tilling, planting or harvesting. Deere taps tractor-hailing tech in bid to break ground in Africa 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Along with not tilling several of his fields, five years ago, Basinger introduced cover crops - cowpeas, flax and turnips. General Mills chooses Kansas for restorative farming project 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Bob let his 7-year-old grandson Logan watch how to repair the disc harrow for tilling the fields. One more year on the farm: A photographic narrative of a family’s fight to save their land That name-calling, tweet-storming enemy of elites tipped the balance in the industrial Midwest and in states where people get dirty digging, drilling or tilling for a living. Opinion | Why workers don’t like grand plans from Democrats 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z This year, he eschewed not only chemicals and pesticides but tilling and Weedwacking, too. How Natural Wine Became a Symbol of Virtuous Consumption 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Some point to a social stigma about tilling the soil among the many township residents who hail from the rural Eastern Cape. Is South Africa's most fertile farmland under threat from developers? 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z “Now we’re not tilling at all,” which means less soil erosion and less chemical runoff. Roundup Weedkiller Is Blamed for Cancers, but Farmers Say It’s Not Going Away 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z He said he’s hearing from a growing number of farmers who are questioning the current farming model of tilling and heavy fertilizer and pesticide use that drives traditional intensive production of corn and soybeans. South Dakota researcher shows benefits of regenerative ag 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z As he spoke, he drove his tractor across a soybean field, tilling under his crop. Harvesting in a trade war: U.S. crops rot as storage costs soar 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Instead of tilling, he planted a cover crop of oats and crimson clover and applied fertilizer directly to the soil. Ohio’s watershed moment: How to fix Lake Erie algae 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z Delaney, who is not neglecting New Hampshire, has been tilling Iowa’s political soil as an announced candidate for more than 475 days and long since exceeded 50 percent name recognition among Democratic Iowans. Opinion | Want to topple Trump? Take John Delaney seriously. 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z If hydroponics or other soil-less practices are used, the farmer does not need to use tractors for tilling, plowing and reaping, so the oil bills and energy consumption are lower. ‘The next evolution of farming has already begun’ 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z If I had anxiety about belonging, I doubt I’d be tilling ground considered so marginal by the literary world — nature writing and memoir. Fire lookout Philip Connors' reckoning in 'A Song for the River' 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Local farmers had watched over the last decade and a half as waves of industrial farms arrived, tilling so much land that dust storms began darkening the sky. The Water Wars of Arizona 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Dismissing such behavior now, and for good, is tilling the soil for racist, homophobic and misogynistic behavior to propagate. Perspective | Dismissing Josh Hader tweets as foolish youth misses a valuable opportunity 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z I’ve visited, the rich black topsoil that settlers once plowed is gone, eroded away leaving farmers tilling anemic subsoil. To Feed the World Sustainably, Repair the Soil 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Culture is not a substitute for direct political action, of course, but as Riley has put it, “it tills the soil and gets people ready” — and he has spent his life tilling the soil. How Boots Riley Infiltrated Hollywood 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z “If they bite the rich or the most powerful people in the government then the attention would be different. But it’s the poorest of the poor – the guys who are tilling on their farm.” Mambas, medicine and one girl's race to survive Kenya's biting problem | Rebecca Ratcliffe 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z “She definitely wanted more showing that the people lived on the land, that they were farmers, peasants, and common people tilling their gardens,” Vess says. With The Books of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin’s fantasy epic gets the treatment it deserves 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z Case said agriculture has traditionally been an early adopter of technology, with driverless tractors tilling fields long before autonomous vehicles showed up on highways. Rise of the Rest bus tour cultivates support for startups 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z If you stop tilling to increase soil carbon, for example, but use more herbicides because you have more weeds, then you probably haven’t changed your overall emissions profile, he says. Can Dirt Save the Earth? 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z But practices like tilling release carbon into the atmosphere. Food, innovation and resilience in the face of climate change 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Most of those still tilling the fields are old and ill-schooled. Why China needs bigger farms 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z While these hairy, warty-faced beasts may not be Java's most photogenic residents, Dr Rode-Margono says they fulfil an important role in the forest's ecology - tilling the soil and spreading seeds as they forage. 'World's ugliest pig' caught on camera 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z That’s likely because these farming women from the past worked incredibly hard — tilling soil, harvesting, and grinding grain by hand. Prehistoric women worked so much their arms were stronger than today’s female rowers 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z Widespread degradation of soils in Africa has been a result of unsustainable farming practices including the continuous tilling of land and leaving land bare after crop harvests. Don't Convert Africa's Savanna to Agricultural Land 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z But tilling crushes aggregates, unlocking their carbon and allowing microbes and soil fauna to attack it. To restore our soils, feed the microbes 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z They found that nearly 66 percent of the emissions came from growing the wheat: tilling the soil, harvesting and irrigation all require emissions-producing machinery. We know for sure that bread is unhealthy — at least, for the environment 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z A new baby also means a 40-day break from the usual demanding physical labour – and another few years of baby baths and giggles breaking up the monotony of tilling the earth and pounding the millet. Why have four children when you could have seven? Family planning in Niger 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z The common prescription is for a “sustainable intensification” of agriculture that both increases yields and reduces the harmful side effects of tilling and fertilizing billions of acres of land. We don’t need to double world food production by 2050 – here’s why 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z Stevens said the main advantage to no-till systems is a long-term effort to protect soil from erosion, as well as the degradation of organic matter that tilling causes. No-till study showing benefits, if farmers stick with it 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z Over the past century, we’ve abused them with plowing, tilling and too much fertilizer. To restore our soils, feed the microbes 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z For centuries, populations flourished by tilling the rich alluvial soil left behind each spring by floodwaters receding from the plains between Baghdad and the Persian Gulf. A Bigger Problem Than ISIS? 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z Weak after his heart surgery, Mr. Young, now 55, rebuilt his strength tilling vegetables and finding a way to use his carpentry skills outside of a full-time job. A Garden Helps Heal a Family 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z The elderly Palestinian plaintiffs recall their mothers and fathers tilling the rocky soil when they were young. Even Israel says this Jewish settlement is illegal. Now comes the showdown. 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z New pollen and soil data show that the Norse allowed fields and what little forest existed to recover after tilling and turf cutting. Why did Greenland’s Vikings disappear? 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z They also are replacing intensive tilling with no-till practices to prevent the breakdown of soil structure. To restore our soils, feed the microbes 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z Bourne’s hemp plants required a tilling, planting and watering, but no amendments were added to the native clay soil. Sea of medicinal hemp plants flowering outside Ashland 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Instead the carbon in all that land, which would be released to the air during tilling, stayed in the dirt. GMOs Are a Necessity—for Farmers and the Environment 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z At best, ignoring deliberate misconduct in efforts to reduce irreproducibility is a wasted opportunity, like tilling a field without clearing it of rocks. Stop ignoring misconduct 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z That's from tilling, breaking up the land and the ground cover before the farmer plants his crop for the season. Could No-Till Farming Reverse Climate Change? 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z “Because of the synthetic based fertilizers, and the tilling, and the tractors, it’s a carbon intensive process to grow grain.” Waste of a beer: Giving the spent grain from your favorite brews a second life 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z After tilling the plots, Hawkins directly seeded them by hand. West Virginia farmers work toward hemp revival 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z There are no picturesque, rolling fields, no tractors tilling soil; there is no white farmhouse or red barn. Growing Greens in the Spare Room as ‘Vertical Farm’ Start-Ups Flourish 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z In Zavala County, all farming activities such as wheat and oat tilling, cabbage and onion harvesting and other field work were halted due to very heavy rainfall. Texas Crop Report for May 25 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Crews, lead researcher at the agricultural research institute in Kansas, said early farmers started to use tilling when they noticed it increased their crop yields. Could No-Till Farming Reverse Climate Change? 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z His narrative blade scrapes the ground instead of tilling deeper questions, or spinning time travel in a new light. Review: Quantum Break Has Great Actors But a Meh Story and Gameplay 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z Instead, they lost wealth as many were forced to become sharecroppers, renting and tilling the very land the government said they could have. A tiny home of one's own: black women embrace the small house movement 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z In 2008, at the height of the global financial crisis, tens of millions of migrants simply went back to rural areas, tilling fields or scrabbling for meagre pay in villages. Shocks and absorbers 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z But routine maintenance like raking of the rubber pellets and tilling of the sand is required to ensure the field does not get too hard. Concussion Report Highlights Field Maintenance 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z But eventually, most no-till farmers will need to use additional herbicide to get rid of last year's cover crop or weeds that tilling would have taken care of. Could No-Till Farming Reverse Climate Change? 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Three years after the sea swallowed his home on the Bangladeshi coast, he still has no property or possessions, and he survives by tilling other people’s fields in exchange for food. Legal limbo awaits millions of future ‘climate refugees’ 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z Practices such as the overuse of chemicals, excessive tilling and the use of heavy machinery disturb the soil’s organic matter, exposing carbon molecules to the air, where they combine with oxygen to create carbon dioxide. A secret weapon to fight climate change: dirt 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z It encouraged farmers to apply sustainable management practices — such as tilling less, installing windbreaks, and planting along slope contours1. Agricultural policy: Govern our soils 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z With tilling, you don’t just lose organic matter, but the soil itself through increased erosion. Can Farming Practices in Oklahoma Solve Climate Change? 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Instead of tilling fields of cucumber, melon and asparagus locals catered to the influx with minivans, hotels, flophouses, packed lunches and hiking supplies. Altar, Mexico: how the 'migrant oasis' for would-be border crossers became a trap 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z It offered a life of decent pay and cradle-to-grave services that was far better than tilling China’s punishing farms. China’s Shift Away From Industry Drains Life From a Steel Town 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z Up until about a year ago, Two Rivers was solely tilling Colorado soil to grow fruit. The Marijuana Market: Everybody Wants A Piece 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z That’s because tilling soil is an agricultural task exempt from Corps or South Florida water district rules, he said. Miklos’ dual roles: protect, assist development of wetlands 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z In western Oklahoma, for example, prior to widespread tilling organic matter levels were up to 6 percent, whereas now they’re mostly below 2 percent, according to the Oklahoma State University data. Can Farming Practices in Oklahoma Solve Climate Change? 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z It also insists that exercising the dominion granted to humankind in Genesis means tilling “the whole Earth”, transforming it “from wilderness to garden and ultimately to garden city”. The pope can see what many atheist greens will not| George Monbiot 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z “It’s a way of life, it’s a culture, it’s something that you do,” Wick said of tilling the soil. Farmers find healthy soil works for crops, bottom line 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z But this relentless tilling of culture by culture does not erase our individual memories. John Ashbery’s Feat of Style 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z He fears the agricultural pride will not carry over to would-be successors, once he and others are through tilling the land for a living. Missouri farmers concerned over agriculture’s future 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z With tilling farmers lose the organic material—more than half of which is carbon—embedded in the soil. Can Farming Practices in Oklahoma Solve Climate Change? 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z It turned up while someone was tilling a garden, the document said. How did this ancient skull from the Southwest reach Gettysburg? 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z But Mr. Tate was unhappy tilling the bureaucratic fields and left to try his hand at information technology consulting. How Dreams and Money Didn’t Mix at a Texas Distillery 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z “It’s going to take a lot of tilling of the soil,” Lawson said. After Republican wins, right to work bills on the agenda By not tilling, farmers can increase their crop yields and reduce fossil fuel use while preserving the soil’s essential nutrients, experts say, and ultimately could help slow down climate change. U of M researchers encouraging no-till practice 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z It says some producers continued with fall tilling and fertilizer applications for the week that ended Sunday. Illinois farmers winding down harvest 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z And it takes careful tilling and pinpoint soil management to make sure the vines survive the hottest months. Drought revives 'forgotten art' at wineries: Farming without irrigation 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z Participating ranchers place their property in conservation easements that guarantee it will permanently remain grassland, although they can continue grazing livestock and growing hay, which can be planted without tilling the soil. Chevrolet supports grassland preservation program 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z A major eruption is not expected to impact the country's farm output with mostly subsistence farmers tilling the land around the volcano. Philippines evacuates thousands as volcano glows red 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z Conservation tilling, or no-till farming, like Dostal uses, is an agricultural practice that refrains from disturbing the topsoil, which is overturned in traditional tilling. U of M researchers encouraging no-till practice 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z “Green Leaf” is all about the joys of looking hard, of tilling new mental capillaries. Art Entangled in Nature 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z Yet Jay’s path has been considerably more unorthodox than his brother’s, almost to the extent that by endlessly tilling lower levels of football, he became the anti-Jon. Jay Gruden takes unorthodox path to NFL head coaching job 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z In the past, milkweed was spared because the herbicides used by farmers to keep crops healthy were used more sparingly—and in some cases, tilling machines were used to clear weeds. Monarch Butterflies Have Declined 90%; Conservationists Seek Extra Protection Now farmers are going back to older techniques to control weeds, using more varieties of herbicides, resuming tilling — and worse. Invader Batters Rural America, Shrugging Off Herbicides 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z Dostal said it takes three to four years for farmers to see positive results, like higher yields, so many aren’t open to embracing conservation tilling methods. U of M researchers encouraging no-till practice 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z Farmers in important crop-growing states should consider the environmentally unfriendly practice of deeply tilling fields to fight a growing problem with invasive "superweeds" that resist herbicides and choke crop yields, agricultural experts said this week. U.S. Midwestern farmers fighting explosion of 'superweeds' 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z Back when he was still learning to take corners while tilling, he sliced one of the saplings. Setting Times stories to music: From Isaac Hayes to Radiohead 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z The 106-acre property in Viola was nothing but bare, blackened corn stubble, and dry, degraded soil, stripped of its nutrients after years of plowing and tilling for annual crops. Farmer committed to restoring the land 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z Slowly, surrounded by other women, they become part of the community, tilling a plot of rented land, singing together and communally feeding their children. 'When We Rape, We Feel Free’: Congolese Soldiers Open Up in Harrowing New Documentary By not tilling, which breaks down and compacts the soil, farmers avoid the deterioration of vital nutrients, and in turn, vegetation will soak in additional carbon dioxide. U of M researchers encouraging no-till practice 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z The skull was found in 1949 on private land near Benner’s Farm, site of a Confederate field hospital, by someone tilling a garden. Auction of skull of Civil War soldier found at Gettysburg canceled 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Say what you will about Nintendo tilling plowed ground, it’s arguably incumbent on the company at this point and in light of Wii U sales to hand fans their first aperitif. 11 Things I'm Hoping to See at E3 2014 (and 6 Things We Probably Won't) 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z As the sun slowly unlocks frigid water from the icy caps above, the valley’s residents give what modest arable land they have its first tilling, chanting while they plow and rake. Markha Valley Journal: Hikers Spread Democracy in India 2014-05-13T02:01:33Z Maintaining soil organic carbon by tilling the ground less and planting cover crops can both help boost crop yields and store carbon underground. Deadly Heat Waves, Flooding Rains, Crop Failures Among Climate Change Plagues Already Afflicting Americans 2014-05-07T15:10:00Z However, not all farmers are willing to switch over to conservation tilling. U of M researchers encouraging no-till practice 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z Though there is still much misery, the economic transformation is widely visible, in thriving urban markets or in the new tractors tilling land where farm animals pulled plows not long ago. Turnabout in Bolivia as Economy Rises From Instability 2014-02-17T02:34:43Z He has been tilling these fields for decades. U.S. News college ranker poses questions about federal college ratings 2014-02-07T15:28:06Z They do not include predictions about whether contemporary ecosystem management practices, such as more fertilizer or less tilling, will impact this balance. How Much Nature Do We Have to Use? 2013-12-12T22:15:00.470Z Farmers are like 'shoppers on Black Friday' Changing tilling practices has been a tough sell to farmers nationwide. How Growing Corn Could Produce Less Pollution 2013-12-05T16:45:00.521Z He has practiced conservation tilling for 15 years on some of his farms, and he said he will likely expand the practice to all of his fields next year. U of M researchers encouraging no-till practice 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z “But the evidence is that agronomy is really important — for example, the trend towards less tilling, which helps preserve soil moisture.” Plant breeding: Discovery in a dry spell 2013-09-25T21:50:44.027Z They started sowing seeds, tilling the stony dirt road and blocking the traffic. India’s Pink Sari Vigiliantes 2013-08-06T08:45:00Z There's more tilling happening these days in the Corn Belt—and more CO2 piling up in the atmosphere. Can Farming Provide a Solution to Climate Change? 2013-08-05T11:15:00.550Z They significantly reduce soil disturbance with less tilling, the practice of digging up the ground to plant seeds and remove weeds. How Growing Corn Could Produce Less Pollution 2013-12-05T16:45:00.521Z Bruce Tiffany, a farmer in southern Minnesota, also practices conservation tilling. U of M researchers encouraging no-till practice 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z The very word "culture" derives from tilling the soil. Cheap food is an addiction we must break 2013-07-20T23:06:04Z In the old days, when Raymond’s great-grandfather farmed wheat in Helix, there was only one way to fallow—you killed all the weeds by tilling. The Search for Monsanto's Rogue GMO Wheat 2013-06-20T09:56:25Z He and his male relatives worked hard tilling the soil during the week but always made it to church on Sundays. DC Church has father, son, grandson combination on Sunday mornings. 2013-06-14T00:44:41Z With fewer farmers tilling the nation's soil, and the average farm size growing year by year, the 2013 crop cannot get in the ground much faster than it did decades ago. Monster machines fan out on U.S. farms facing slow sow 2013-05-20T11:05:09Z Using chemicals to control weeds is still more efficient than ploughing and tilling the soil, and is less environmentally damaging. Case studies: A hard look at GM crops 2013-05-01T17:20:37.990Z We delivered fertilizer, tilling equipment, rice seed, and helped 58,000 farm households to replant. How to Design Products for People Making $2 a Day 2013-02-08T17:15:04.910Z After all, her post-college plans involved tilling her father’s farm, but “if she were a man, she would study mechanical engineering.” Study Suggests Lower Death Risk for the Overweight 2013-01-01T21:00:17Z The Warren campaign has been tilling the fields for months. Warren-Brown Senate Race Appears Close 2012-11-05T18:39:26Z “We are tilling that hard soil now — that is, reaching out to people who could potentially give significant amounts of dollars.” Todd Akin’s Senate bid regains momentum 2012-09-23T15:29:00Z They also controlled weeds through ploughing and tilling — practices that deplete topsoil and release carbon dioxide, but do not encourage resistance. Case studies: A hard look at GM crops 2013-05-01T17:20:37.990Z A click leads to a log of what was done when on each field: tilling on this date, fertilizing on that date, spraying on another. Digital Domain: Farm Software Tries to Make Its Mark - Digital Domain 2012-08-04T18:40:27Z He clearly admires the get-up-and-go attitude of these new recruits to rural life, who fancy tilling the land instead of joining the dole queue. Greeks hear call of soil and sky 2012-06-27T08:59:52Z Even in the best of times, many Tarahumara live on the edge, tilling just enough to survive. Born To Run 2012-06-25T05:00:00Z Meadows, fields, rivers, farmers tilling the soil and people playing cricket on the village green. Are green and pleasant Games a real reflection of the UK? 2012-06-13T11:53:49Z Ade has followed in the footsteps of his family, tilling the land the way so many before him have done. Indonesian farmers reaping tech rewards 2012-06-04T23:00:39Z “It’s fun,” he said, and returned to tilling the Manhattan soil. Character Study: Li Tingbang, 78, Guerrilla Gardener in the City 2012-06-02T14:32:03Z I was dragging on with life tilling a small plot of land in my village when tragedy struck my family. Tunni Rai: A life without identity 2012-05-29T23:22:22Z To this perfect tilling of the earth it is due that this island is one of the most populous portions of the globe. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z The FAO is promoting other green ways of raising yields, in particular an approach called conservation agriculture, which involves covering fields with mulch and not tilling the soil. African agriculture: Dirt poor 2012-03-28T17:20:24.933Z White men occupied in tilling land knew their value, and employed them every season in haymaking and harvesting. Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind 2012-03-13T02:00:25.633Z Sent him one with a picture of a farmer on it, and told him I'd gone to tilling land for a living. Two Boy Gold Miners or, Lost in the Mountains 2012-03-12T03:00:19.777Z In the general view of Mellifont, given in frontispiece, the plot whereon these buildings stood is that where the man is seen tilling the garden. Mellifont Abbey, Co. Louth Its Ruins and Associations, a Guide and Popular History 2012-02-29T03:00:24.937Z After they were gone, the miserable people returned and rebuilt their mud hovels, and tried by tilling the soil, to gain a bare subsistence. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z The able-bodied men were engaged in the Bank fishery; the elders and boys in tending the flocks and tilling the soil. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z The contrast between the free ceorls tilling their own land and the band of military followers, who are always considered as personally dependent—this contrast is a marked one. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z If the manufacturers have not sufficient employment, they cannot buy the superfluous produce of the land; the farmers will be discouraged from tilling, and general distress and poverty must ensue. The Commercial Restraints of Ireland 2012-02-13T03:00:20.483Z There they remained, for the father had lost courage and only found a little health by tilling the few acres of ground about the cottage. The Lucky Piece A Tale of the North Woods 2012-02-13T03:00:18.927Z They eke out their scanty returns from tilling the soil by a variety of home industries, such as making scythes, saws, bells, wooden wares, hair goods, and so forth. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z The sturdy peasant is lord of his own rugged farm, and insists on tilling it in his own primitive way, breaking the soil with 366 rude mattock more often than with plough. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z The facts we have been examining certainly suppose that in the villains we have chiefly to do with peasants tilling the earth and dependent on manorial organisation. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z He toiled in the sweat of his brow, tilling the stubborn ground, taking out stones, building fences. The Moral Instruction of Children 2012-02-02T03:04:33.057Z I gave them a plow as a national gift, and told them that I gave that kind of a present because we thought tilling the ground would make them happy. A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information 2012-01-20T03:00:11.607Z The manner of tilling the soil is rather primitive. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z Can there be a greater pleasure in life than living on one's own land, and honestly plying the oldest and most important of human industries—the tilling of the soil! In Jeopardy 2012-01-04T03:00:35.013Z The society of those days appears as an agricultural mass consisting not of individual persons or natural families, but of groups possessed of the implements for tilling the land. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z Because they know that from time immemorial men have not only secured an honest living, but have gained a competence from tilling the soil. Natural and Artificial Duck Culture 2012-01-04T03:00:33.923Z Hartz is now tilling Silicon Valley’s start-up common through his work as an entrepreneur and Angel investor. Oxford Historian Creates Silicon Valley's Future 2011-12-30T23:00:01Z In the polygamous households with which I came into contact the wives were all stricken in years, and they lived harmoniously together, dividing the labour of wood-cutting, water-carrying, and tilling their husband's garden between them. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z Labourers p. 23we could see in the fields tilling the soil for next year’s produce. From the Thames to the Tiber or, My visit to Paris, Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan, Switzerland, etc. 2011-12-03T03:00:10.397Z I have seen thy strength and courage worn out tilling the fields of some duke and peer, whose steps have never trodden his domain; far from Ireland he travels in state. Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire 2011-11-15T03:00:23.507Z For many, participating in the futures market is as necessary as tilling the land. DealBook: MF Global's Failure Raises Issues About Regulator 2011-11-10T12:26:54Z Reason and experience tell us, that when the poor have it in their power to gain affluence by tilling the earth, they will refuse the scanty earnings which manufacturers may offer them. The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution Volume 7. 2011-11-03T02:00:18.037Z You that were left were people wholly inexperienced in war, and occupied with other employments, as tilling the ground, and several kinds of mechanical trades. Old English Chronicles 2011-10-27T02:00:21.903Z High taxes to keep the land at all, borrowed money to finance the tilling of it. The International Jew The World's Foremost Problem 2011-10-16T02:00:19.257Z They instructed them in the method of tilling the virgin and fertile soil, of utilizing the many streams of water that nature had provided.” The Katipunan or The Rise and Fall of the Filipino Commune 2011-10-03T02:00:24.600Z The sons of the prosperous farmers do not take kindly to the tilling of the soil with their own hands. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z There were acres and acres of the same field; and as he threaded his way forward he cursed the owners for their greed in tilling so much land. Wang the Ninth The Story of a Chinese Boy 2011-09-12T02:00:25.620Z To the left in the background, a landscape, where people are tilling the soil. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z These people, though poor and half wild, tilling little or not at all an ungrateful soil, living by their herds, pious, and hating heretics, were, in truth, given heart and soul to the sovereign. The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z Soon the Christians, who dared not attack, but believed they held the Moslems in their grasp, perceived them deliberately setting up barracks, and contentedly tilling the soil and preparing for the various operations of agriculture. The Moors in Spain 2011-08-29T02:01:09.183Z In great part the Indians would become a cringing sudra caste, tilling the poorer lands and confined to the menial or repulsive occupations. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z He had seen enough of tilling another man's fields in America, and resolved to try his fortune in some other way, but was at a loss how to begin. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX 2011-08-27T02:00:23.817Z By his teaching and example, the savage will learn how to provide against famine, by tilling the soil. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z But the farmer and the labourer work on much the same, the closing of banks and factories in no way interfering with the tilling of the earth or the tending of cattle. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z In the earlier portions of my life, I gathered some experience in tilling the soil; in boyhood and early youth, it was almost my sole occupation. Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou 2011-08-04T02:00:22.900Z But the usual policy of their enemies has been to cut off individual or small scattered parties, while engaged in the chase or in tilling isolated corn patches. Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales With notes on the origin, customs and character of the Pawnee people 2011-08-02T02:00:20.603Z Men were happy in those far-off times--tilling the soil, and living on the fruits of this beautiful plain. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z But as the Roman Empire grew, its armies absorbed its intelligent farmers, the tilling of the soil was left to the menial and the slave, and the Empire and agriculture declined together. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z Farmers, of course, have always tried to eliminate weeds, by tilling or by spraying other herbicides. In Midwest, Flutters May Be Far Fewer 2011-07-11T19:33:53Z Those who inhabit the country are employed only in tilling the ground and feeding cattle. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z You want them tilling the soil, planting seeds, watering, and eventually harvesting the crop—not just swooping in and picking the fruits of your company's labor.Inbound leads are an asset of the company. Hiring Your First Salesperson? 2011-06-16T21:00:00Z For Kroul, it meant tilling and planting and chopping: a long glimpse at his future. As Labor Dispute Goes On, Some Are Looking Past Football 2011-06-04T16:54:05Z All day long from dawn until sunset she toiled hard, tilling her little garden, watering her vegetables and keeping them free from weeds. Canadian Fairy Tales 2011-05-30T02:00:14.087Z The Saxon colony on the mountains boldly advanced to the valley, and took up without molestation the tilling of the soil. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z We congratulate the farmers of Texas for adopting modern methods in tilling the soil and in a diversification of crops. Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 2011-05-07T02:00:26.100Z He spent his time in writing several books, in tilling the soil, and in telling visitors the wonderful events of his life and of Anita. Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous 2011-04-26T02:00:23.677Z The colonists instead of building houses and tilling the soil to supply food, were bent upon finding gold. American Leaders and Heroes A preliminary text-book in United States History 2011-04-03T02:00:17.547Z Prevent every thing which might hinder the tilling of the fields after harvest. The Little Treasure of Prayers Being a Translation of the Epitome from the German Larger 'Treasure of prayers' ['Gebets-Schatz'] 2011-04-02T02:00:09.993Z I know that his is not the royal road to rapid acquisition, and that few men are likely to amass great wealth by quietly tilling the soil. What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science 2011-03-29T02:00:08.937Z It matters little, therefore, whether man devote his life to the tilling of the soil, the making of shoes or the writing of books, so that the work be well done. A Rational Theology As Taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 2011-03-14T03:01:04.693Z There they keep tilling with their obstinate hands The black glebe mined by moles, and rotten with Detritus, pregnant with the autumn's sperm. Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell 2011-03-10T03:00:44.993Z These settlers had the fore-thought to carry with them farming implements to use in tilling the soil. American Leaders and Heroes A preliminary text-book in United States History 2011-04-03T02:00:17.547Z Not much of any building is going on in the city, as all mechanics are advised to go to tilling the earth. Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission 2011-02-21T03:00:08.060Z I believe that many pioneers have devoted as much time to fencing their fields as to tilling them throughout their first six or eight years. What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science 2011-03-29T02:00:08.937Z Agriculture.—The cereals attest to the tilling of the soil. A Manual of the Antiquity of Man 2011-02-21T03:00:07.080Z Of course, tilling of the soil could never satisfy them. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z The women did little work, for most of the tilling of the soil was done by the tribes subject to the Makololo. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z The encouragement that agriculture has met with in an increased demand for the staple produce of the county, and remunerative prices will call for an improved system of tilling the fields. The Court Houses of a Century A Brief Historical Sketch of the Court Houses of London Distict, the County of Middlesex, and County of Elgin 2011-01-22T03:00:15.373Z I spent three or four of my boyish Summers planting and tilling Corn and Potatoes on fields broken up just before they were planted, never cross-plowed, and of course tough and intractable throughout the season. What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science 2011-03-29T02:00:08.937Z He thought that, after all, it was useless to go roaming about the world when he might remain at home tilling his father's fields. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z The coming of the railroad through the state, bringing thousands of settlers with household furnishings and machinery for tilling the soil, was of the greatest importance. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z Her son works down on the beach here, riding a tractor and tilling the sand to scoop up oil. Along Louisiana's bayous, more worry about future than relief over well kill 2010-08-04T22:47:00Z "This garden is no tilling and as little watering as possible," he says. Gardening for a healthy mind, body and soul 2010-07-28T20:01:00Z No youth should undertake to manage a farm until after several years of training for that task under the eye of a capable master of the art of tilling the soil. What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science 2011-03-29T02:00:08.937Z “We used to work and eat,” Ms. Devi said, her face etched by decades of blistering winters, her fingers thick from summers of tilling the soil. One Bride for 3 Brothers: A Custom Fades in India 2010-07-16T16:34:00Z He says he ran into them on the way back from tilling his field, and they accused him of being a garimpeiro. The 'Blood Diamond' Resurfaces 2010-06-19T00:40:00Z Farmers question whether it is worth tilling the soil against a shrinking export market, a lower return and a lack of credit. Caribbean banana industry decline is no sideshow 2010-05-18T08:00:00Z Since then he had lived on his small estate, more occupied with the study of military science than with the tilling of his fields. A Divided Heart and Other Stories In short, there is money to be made, by those who have means and know how, by buying New England farms, tilling them better, and growing much larger crops than their present occupants have done. What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science 2011-03-29T02:00:08.937Z A wandering shepherd may build his camp-fire here, or an Arab who is tilling a bit of ground; but his home will be in Ayasaluk, several miles away, not here. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise The yoking of oxen was his generalship, the piling of dung his fortification, tilling of the land his campaigning, and the cleaning out of stables his princely pastime and exercise. The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim They were agriculturists, tilling the ground with considerable skill and producing yuca, corn, beans, peanuts, squashes, peppers and various other crops, besides fruits and tobacco. The History of Cuba, vol. 1 I could not endure to see you all, each in his own field of labor, busy tilling and planting and at last reaping,--real grain, whether much or little--and stand by with my cockle-weed. The Children of the World He found the old gentleman, with his man contentedly tilling his farm, and his mother cheerfully attending to household affairs, as their narrow circumstances would not admit her to keep a maid without embarrassment.... Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact In most savage tribes which practise agriculture the labour of tilling the fields falls in great measure on the female sex, but it was not so in Tonga. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II And the Duboscs went on valiantly tilling the soil, from father to son. The Tremendous Event For no one lived on Patricio, save where, opposite East Angels, the old Ruiz house stood on its lapsed land—lapsed from the better tilling of the century before. East Angels Now the farmer that morning was tilling his soil, Flushed, ragged, and sunbrowned, and grimy with toil, When pausing a moment, as all farmers will, He spied our two friends coming over the hill. Harper's Round Table, September 17, 1895 Likewise the culture, which has so kindly adapted itself to your soil,—so intimate with life, so human,—not only needed tilling and weeding in past ages, but still needs anxious work and watching. The Spirit of Japan "It is a field worth tilling," said the older man as they shook hands. Thirty Along with the production of marketable commodities came the tilling of the soil by individual cultivators for their own account, soon followed by individual ownership of the land. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State He has conquered it, turning what otherwise would be adverse climatic conditions to advantage in tilling the land. The Pig Breeding, Rearing, and Marketing Tractor Power.—Just as large tractors have supplanted horses and horse-drawn equipment on thousands of farms in the United States, the so-called garden tractor has become increasingly popular for the tilling of small acreages. A Living from the Land In the mass they were a body of patient labourers, tilling a rich soil, and hating all foreign lands and ways. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" This marks the beginning of scientific thoroughness and efficiency in our tilling of the soil. The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity Then comes the tilling of the soil, in which farming is the principal occupation of most of the people. Planet of the Gods Once, so runs the legend, there lived in far Judean hills two affectionate brothers, tilling a common field together. Neighbors Life Stories of the Other Half But this, of course, could be of little service in solving the pressing labor problem, in clearing new ground or tilling the idle fields. The Planters of Colonial Virginia Against the Tlascallans they threw out more terrible language, threatening to turn them all into slaves, fatten some for their sacrifices, and reserve others for rebuilding their houses and tilling the ground. The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 2 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. This suggests the need of more intelligent modern farmers tilling the soil as a profession and thus pointing the way to progress for all their neighbors. The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity Nevertheless the spirit of adventure in him confined itself in tilling his ground, and conquering such obstacles as stood in the way of its fertility. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume IV (of 8) After all, "the Fighting Twenty-seventh" were not skilled in the tilling of the land. Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Ten Christmas stories Their land they gave up to pasture and cattle raising, as being more profitable and requiring less care than tilling the soil. Roman Women As he passed out into the clearing, he would be confronted by the men, some of them tilling the soil, others acting as shepherds or swineherds. Women of England So the old communal ownership of land becomes more and more invaded, the communal property is rapidly converted into a village of farmers, each tilling his own piece of ground. Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" The Indians were always migratory and two years later we find Governor Thoma living at the mouth of the Becaguimec and tilling his cornfield since become the site of the town of Hartland. Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 They would be prosperous and happy in tilling the soil and learning the civilization of the white men, whom they now respect. Geronimo's Story of His Life The rich men no longer, like the great republican patricians, prided themselves on their skill in tilling the soil; it better suited their tastes, and was more lucrative, to farm taxes. Roman Women There are elements in what is commonly called land that wear out as do the tools that are used in tilling it, but these elements are not land in the economic sense. Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy From early youth he had hunted all through the northern wilderness, and had been no more able to tie himself to a farm, and earn his bread by tilling the soil, than an Indian. With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga The peasants joined the monks in tilling the ground, and even the brigands from the hills and forests became agriculturists. Legends & Romances of Brittany His master had a liking for him, owing to his obedient and original character, and the slave, instead of tilling the soil, was at liberty to do whatever he thought proper. Happy Days for Boys and Girls In addition he had the task of tilling forty acres of land which belongs to the church. The Evolution of the Country Community A Study in Religious Sociology We do this by taking these units of labor and capital away from the worthless marginal land and setting them to tilling that which is of the better quality. Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy That friend of the poor author was found—he was tilling his garden, surrounded by his flower pots and children, on the outskirts of Prague, Bohemia. The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes When we are tilling the ground we shall be making them soft for our slumber. Émile or, Concerning Education; Extracts He is not chiseling, or carving a work of art: he is roughly outlining a man; he is planting a seed, or tilling a field. Whitman A Study They have only one basis of unity, namely, that they co-operate in tilling the soil, and in the producing of food and raw materials. The Evolution of the Country Community A Study in Religious Sociology Then followed the long period of persistent tilling and sowing which brought no reaping until the last quarter of the century, when the scanty harvest began to be gathered. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV So for ten years we have dwelt here together, tilling and watering our ground and living on its fruit and by the sale of baskets that we weave and exchange for fish with our neighbors. The Cat of Bubastes A Tale of Ancient Egypt Here, as elsewhere, there is room for improvement in methods of tilling the soil and in rotation of crops, use of animal manures, etc. The Negro Farmer It is necessary to regulate the shape of the vine by training so that tilling, spraying, pruning and harvesting can be easily performed and the crop be kept off the ground. Manual of American Grape-Growing Left to their own choice, they would have remained quietly at home, tilling their fields, rearing their families. The Destroyer A Tale of International Intrigue Though it was as a maritime power that Portugal rose to its greatest height, it has been from time immemorial an agricultural nation, and the mass of its people are engaged in tilling the soil. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 The class saw the natives at work tilling the soil. Be It Ever Thus Ephraim, however, thought that at the rate she was picking it her crop would not last another month, and strongly advised the clearing of a part of the bed and tilling more seeds. The Carroll Girls The skip of a single season in tilling stunts the vines, and two or three skips in successive seasons ruin a vineyard. Manual of American Grape-Growing “Nature’s son, whose name Is unknown to fame, But his acre tilling, Strong-armed and tall, Like his forefathers all, Him to honour we’re willing, He shall find the second token!” The Gold Horns Patience may also have an active force denoting uncomplaining steadiness in doing, as in tilling the soil. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions For the privilege of tilling their fields, which were once ours! The Mexican Twins "You have almost a clear field out there—no one but Howe seems to be tilling it." A Son of the Middle Border The tools to be used in tilling grapes vary with the topography of the vineyard, the kind of soil and the preferences of the vineyardist. Manual of American Grape-Growing There were no cities; each family lived to itself, in crude huts, tilling the ground and hunting its own food. The God in the Box Our ancestors trusted to the powers of magic, to incantations, for health, for success in tilling the ground, for finding lost articles, for preventing accidents, etc. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 7, July, 1880 The people, unlike the Monguls and Tartars, lived by tilling the ground, and they practiced, in great perfection, many manufacturing and mechanic arts. Genghis Khan, Makers of History Series He had lived there quite contentedly for many years, tilling the ground when he had to. Battling the Clouds or, For a Comrade's Honor Other soils in these regions are fit for vineyards only when tiled, and tiling does not make all wet land fit for tilling. Manual of American Grape-Growing What a different aspect would have presented itself ere this, if the 5,000 Gipsies among us had been tilling our waste lands and commons for the last century. Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement A Scout farmer may have her chief interest in rearing animals but she should know something about the main business of the farmer which is tilling the soil. Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts The same power that accords them the poor privilege of tilling the earth for their own subsistence may at any time withdraw it. The Land of Thor Farmer, tilling your soil, gathering your crops, caring for your herds; you are helping feed the world. The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit He found the old gentleman with his man contentedly tilling his farm, and his mother cheerfully attending to household affairs, as their narrow circumstances would not admit her to keep a maid without embarrassment. Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father Others did double duty at home, tilling the ground and gathering in the harvests, that their fathers, husbands, brothers, and sons might go forth to fight the battles of freedom. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Nothing man did seemed more interesting than this tilling and sowing. Otherwise Phyllis To them poetry and craftsmanship were as much honourable occupations or, as we should say, professional activities as fighting and tilling. Progress and History The same result follows when they are used as aids in tilling the soil or in transportation. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV It was never a labor of love with him, however, and although he grew well-to-do in the tilling, he resented the touch of the soil as something degrading. Winning the Wilderness The improvement in agriculture, or to speak literally, in the method of tilling the soil, is by no means great. Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes. It was with a sense of elation that he traversed these fields of his own tilling and sowing and reaping. Otherwise Phyllis And so on with all the arts of life or pleasure, including clothing, cooking, tilling, sailing, and fighting. Progress and History Now, in the springtime, the countryside was stirring into new life, and masters and men alike were full of enthusiasm over the tilling of the soil and the expectation of good crops to come. Where Deep Seas Moan Pryor Gaines will be our teacher for many years, we hope, but he is hardly equal to tilling his ground now. Winning the Wilderness Here also every acre of land is turned to good account, but the method of tilling the land is very defective. Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes. Any Jew not domiciled at the moment in Alsace might not thereafter acquire domicile in that department, and could do so in others only by becoming a landowner and tilling the soil. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) The tribes differ somewhat, some being devoted to hunting, according to the ancient, uncivilised way, others take to the tilling of the ground. From Slave to College President Being the Life Story of Booker T. Washington The farmers live in little villages and apparently go home every night after tilling their fields. The Critic in the Orient They therefore spend most of the year in roaming and hunting when they should be at work tilling the soil and improving their lands. The Indian Question (1874) These tribes were now partially civilized, and were tilling their lands in contentment. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Now, at some distance from his own farm, there is another on which the laborers were working for their bread in the same way, by tilling the land. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing Of course all kinds of double cropping require that extra attention be given to the tilling and fertilizing of the plantation. The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 If our colony had ever by any chance arrived at their goal they would have found themselves in sore straits for the means of tilling the earth and of cooking their food. Marjorie To these every inducement is being held out to take up land, and actively commence tilling it. The Indian Question (1874) Middle-aged men, who had spent their lives in tilling the soil, had now to learn mechanical trades. The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan Nature had been rolling and tilling this green plot of ground for a good many thousand years. A Dixie School Girl You know that all your other towns are in my power, and your countrypeople are peacefully tilling their fields while you are uselessly dying of hunger. Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality But I was born upon a rocky hill, and now I live upon another that is higher and rockier, and I don't believe in tilling it fifteen times a year. Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Seventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. September 8 and 9, 1916. Many of them are engaged in tilling the soil, while others are learning the mechanical arts; and they may, as a body, be said to be making considerable progress in the pursuits of civilized life. The Indian Question (1874) He was half landsman, tilling his own croft, half seaman, going out with the boats to the herrings. The Little Manx Nation - 1891 At the same time when Brahma-datta was reigning in Benares, the future Buddha was born one of a peasant family; and when he grew up he gained his living by tilling the ground. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes For tilling, primitive wooden ploughs, fitted with an iron share, were used. The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula The law claims many of them and occasionally the raising of stock and the tilling of soil, though usually as proprietors only, it is true. Stubble These men were tempted into the undertaking by hopes of sudden wealth, and were altogether disinclined to even the slight labor of tilling that exuberant soil, when only a subsistence was to be their reward. The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) A great proportion of the men of the humbler classes are half seamen, half landsmen, tilling their little crofts in the spring and autumn, and going out with the herring boats in summer. The Little Manx Nation - 1891 These early inhabitants combined tilling the soil and extracting the wealth of the sea, only, however, as shore fishermen, and an occasional off-shore whaling voyage in small boats. The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 5, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 5, May, 1886 And you, who still live by tilling the soil, will find a marked change economically in dispensing with your beasts of burden. Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch "If two minutes' yanking with a pair of pincers at a little bone is worth five dollars, then one day's hard labor in tilling the ground is worth just as much." Stories of New Jersey These usually began tilling the soil for themselves and probably marketed their products in the town. The Negro at Work in New York City A Study in Economic Progress He sees men tilling the fields, felling the forests, building houses, factories and railroads; he sees them build hospitals, colleges and churches. The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male He has also described the dance of the Magnesians, in which they represented their tilling the ground, in an attitude, and in readiness for defence, against expected moroders. A Treatise on the Art of Dancing To permit the Hebrews to obtain that assistance in tilling the land, which otherwise they would not have been allowed to do. 2d. Is Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible? The typical holding is that of the small landowner tilling from 3 to 10 acres with his own hands with or without help from village menials. The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir These beds for the early growth of the plants until large enough to transplant, are made in various ways and at different times, according to the method of tilling adopted and the climate. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce The mound of sand was removed, the tilling taken out, and they presently came upon the body. Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess But having built what he conceives to be an adequate number of bouerin-hauses, he plants in each of these a bouerman, and pays him for tilling the ground. Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, Visited in 1837. Vol. II Her hind body may be seen tilling with the red blood, until it cries quits, and the insect withdraws its sting and flies sluggishly away. Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses Now the tilling of the soil of life is what in all its different forms we call culture, and the expansion of God's germinating influence is what we call religion. Mornings in the College Chapel Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal Religion The Buddhist religion prevails to a great extent here, which diminishes the quantity of beef used, though not so much as the kindly feeling towards the creature that is so useful in tilling the soil. Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics The mother was urged to place the children in various homes, but she managed to keep them together by doing housework for the neighbors and tilling a little garden. American Men of Mind Unlike the ordinary settler, he worked himself in tilling the land and felling and carting trees. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure He always looked forward to the time when he would go back to the farm and earn his living by tilling the soil. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen There they tarried for several years, and engaged in tilling the soil. The Mormon Menace The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite Here people live in the country to till the land and to live by tilling it; yet they don't call themselves 'peasants,' either. Lady Betty Across the Water They were supplied with food, clothing and all necessaries of life for one year, which would give them an opportunity of tilling the land and providing for themselves in future. The Philippine Islands The people admired the industry of the new comers, and, from admiration they passed to imitation; the peasants joined the monks in tilling the ground, and even the brigands became agriculturists. Brittany & Its Byways He saw himself working in the flowers and tilling the vegetable garden. From Place to Place Up to forty years of age a man is sowing and tilling, and after forty he reaps. Dollars and Sense He looked, and saw peasants tilling the soil. Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore There are probably more natives of India to-day tilling the soil in Natal alone than the whole number of agriculturists who have come from Europe in the last thirty years. Impressions of South Africa Every musket to the guard-house, And its lead to furlough send— To the tilling of the meadows Every gallant bayonet bend. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Life-Maker am I, tilling the soil in the sweat of my brow from the beginning of time, planting all manner of good seeds for the harvest. The Acorn-Planter A California Forest Play (1916) To Gonds and others who had not this knowledge, the inferior occupation of tilling the land was left. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II "Would ye moind tilling me the time, Jack, darlint?" asked the Irish lad, still crouched in the bow as a lookout. Motor Boat Boys Mississippi Cruise or, The Dash for Dixie Nearly all live under tribal law in their own communities, owning some cattle, and tilling patches of land which amount in all to about 320,000 acres. Impressions of South Africa He has studied those people and found them apt in the schools as well as in the acquiring of American customs in tilling the soil and in the trades. History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens The same dignity of immemorial association hangs, it is true, about such masculine labours as are connected with the tilling of the earth and the sailing of the sea. The Complex Vision Orion is the plough left by one of the Pāndava brothers after he had finished tilling the heavens. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II This metal was the most precious of all their possessions, he said, for from it their arms were made, and also their tools for tilling the earth, and for working wood and stone. The Aztec Treasure-House It is industrialism and large business upon which our Western superstructures depend, not on the tilling of the soil. Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 The boy grows, and in a few years we find him chopping wood and tilling the little clearing in the forest, to help his mother. Pushing to the Front The Pale spent its time tilling and fighting, and it was more sure of its bellyful of blows than of bread. Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry Three hundred years of the implanting of the seed of Spanish culture and ideals, and fifty years of drastic revolutionary tilling of the social soil, wrought a nation at length. Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development Preparing and tilling land costs too much in money and work to allow the land to be planted with poor seed. Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition Two thirds of the adult males in the country are engaged wholly in tilling the soil. Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) The house was a white structure among a light thicket of trees, and as we came close to it, we met a man busily tilling the soil with a tractor plow. Highways in Hiding The usurer is no way profitable to the republic, neither by tilling the ground, by trade, &c.; yet idle at home, would have all to produce to him; hates all he gains not by. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March There were farming implements, to be used in tilling the land in that new country to which they were going, and a bountiful supply of seeds. Ten American Girls From History By tilling the soil, my child, and growing cotton and sugar; fine country for that. Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems When I note how few Catholics are engaged in honestly tilling the honest soil, and how many Catholics are engaged in the liquor traffic, I cannot talk buncombe to anybody. A History of American Christianity They had been very poor in the old country, his father tilling a small farm while the mother was a weaver of linen. Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail By his rule he obliged all his monks to assiduous manual labor in the spirit of penance: he allowed them the use of no cattle to ease them at their work in tilling the ground. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Adam in the garden of Eden was in no cold or severe climate, he had no need of clothes, not even of the trouble of tilling the ground. True Words for Brave Men And in truth, we have been wearying for the time to come; for after having had a year of fighting, one does not settle down readily to tilling the soil. Saint Bartholomew's Eve A Tale of the Huguenot WarS He formulated enduring systems of tilling the soil, and making sure the munificent reward of labor wisely bestowed upon this, the primal calling of man. Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective We must make the soil of our hearts receptive and fertile by tilling in order that the rain of divine mercy may refresh them and bring forth roses and hyacinths of heavenly planting. The Promulgation of Universal Peace Then for a while he went to Ghawr, near Tiberias, where he farmed, both tilling the soil and devoting much of his time to supplicating and communing with God. Memorials of the Faithful The domestic scenes—hunting, fishing, tilling, grazing—were all shown in the one flat, planeless, shadowless method of representation, but with better drawing and color and more variety than appeared later on. A Text-Book of the History of Painting In prehistoric times when food was scarce, and man had not learned the art of tilling the soil, hunger forced him to fight for what he got to eat. Applied Psychology for Nurses Their whole thoughts were given to tilling their land, and bringing in sufficient to live upon, and to satisfy the demands of the tax gatherers when they visited them. The Tiger of Mysore A Story of the War with Tippoo Saib The masterly tilling of the soil demands one learned in chemistry and botany—botany, which we know is not even a stranger to Latin. Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro When her helpmate has felled the trees for the new farm, she does the looping, lighter clearing, burning, sowing, weeding, tilling, and harvesting. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir It was necessary for these mustered peoples to have the instruments for tilling, those of architecture, a knowledge of surveying, with laws and a police. Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary But the rivers, by cutting down and tilling up, have long since obliterated these water areas. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography Others go of their own free will, thinking soldiering easier work than tilling the fields, besides the chance of getting rich booty. The Tiger of Mysore A Story of the War with Tippoo Saib Many of them are enthusiastic to the extent that they would see every Negro school in the land teaching skill in the trades and in the tilling of soil. Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro This capacity for tilling the soil instead of gambling in fish had made of Glenn, and a few other men, the real aristocracy of the place. The Place Beyond the Winds I fancied myself in America engaged in tilling the ground, assisted by an enormous progeny—well, why not marry and go and till the ground in America? Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 I think myself, my son, that there are higher lives than that spent in tilling the soil from boyhood to old age. Orange and Green A Tale of the Boyne and Limerick They had always been known as a pastoral race, raising flocks and herds, and tilling the soil. Captured by the Navajos But have you not noticed that women are pulling the carts, women are tilling the fields? Soldier Silhouettes on our Front These I exceedingly admire, for they are men skilled not in propagating the vine, nor in grafting trees, nor in tilling the ground. On the Antiquity of the Chemical Art The men he showed how to win iron from the rock, and how to forge the spear-heads and the hoes for the tilling. In Search of the Okapi A Story of Adventure in Central Africa The poor who might be admitted to it would be employed at work proportionate to their strength, and more particularly in the tilling of the farms belonging to the establishment. The Makers of Canada: Bishop Laval During the day strong healthy men sit about outside, while the women do all the work, even to the toilsome labour of tilling the ground! Through Palestine with the Twentieth Machine Gun Squadron They have more than enough to do in tilling their tremendous and never fully occupied field, and they should be free from any care which might in any wise divert them from that work. Random Reminiscences of Men and Events The base of the new English society was the freeman whom we have seen tilling, judging, or fighting for himself by the Northern Sea. History of the English People, Volume I Early England, 449-1071; Foreign Kings, 1071-1204; The Charter, 1204-1216 These relics had lain there undisturbed for all this time because China has been merely tilling the fields and neglecting everything else. Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation Negroes commonly preferred tilling plots of their own, rented or bought under mortgage, to the more irksome wage labor under white supervision. History of the United States He belonged to the land he was tilling, as the trees that grew on it belonged to it, and the master of that land was his master for evermore! A Short History of Russia The whole land was occupied by little groups of Teutonic settlers, each isolated by the mark within their own township; each tilling the ground with their own hands and those of their Welsh serfs. Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain He found me in a retirement I doat on, living like an antediluvian patriarch among my children and grandchildren, and tilling my soil. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 I saw wooden hoes used for tilling the soil in the Bechuana and Bataka countries, but never stone ones. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 The settlers stayed on their land, battling with stumps, clearing away the ancient forest, tilling the soil. Poor Man's Rock Lusty youths, still in the bleu horizon of the French Army, were busy tilling the ground, which they had cleared of bricks and mortar, to make vegetable gardens. Fanny Goes to War The noble himself lived upon his manor, accepted service from his churls in tilling his own homestead, and allowed them lands in return in the outlying portions of his estates. Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain The farmer tilling his fields was shot from ambush; the hunter found himself hunted; children were carried away to captivity, and women, looking up from their household work, found an Indian on the threshold. American Men of Action When he was attacked, New was engaged tilling the soil on his own farm. The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself Their quarrels had left them no time for tilling the soil, and they were wholly dependent on the Indians for food. Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II The Planting Of The First Colonies: 1562—1733 "This I do because I'm an old man and must go on tilling the soil—go on plowing and sowing in the place where I have always worked and slaved." Jerusalem The military force was to be a volunteer corps, which would construct military posts and at the same time provide for its own maintenance by tilling the soil. Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics Formerly, the deities, while tilling the earth whereon they performed a sacrifice, used the goad for striking the bullocks yoked to the plough. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 The Rishis said, 'In days of yore, O Rama, Kuru was engaged in perseveringly tilling the soil of this field. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Often they occupied the position of a vassal peasantry, tilling the soil for the benefit of their lords. The Empire of Russia Terceiras is the best tilling, and much wrapper can usually be selected from it when new. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. His only recreation was to drive to his little farm, which lay a few miles out of the city, and engage with his own hands in the work of tilling it. Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made Hence, in tilling earth for such a purpose, one may, without incurring censure or sin, apply the goad to bullocks. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 A few scattered sheep were lazily feeding near; below them a man was tilling a fresh-cleared patch of ground; far away beyond two figures were standing side by side. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 All of them, by the favor of divine Providence, have by their example and labor brought in a rich harvest from the spiritual tilling of this city. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 11 of 55 1599-1602 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century I s’pose it’s the route taken by the crathurs in going to the water, for there’s a splendid spring right there, and the path that I was just tilling you ’bout leads straight to it.” The Cave in the Mountain A Sequel to In the Pecos Country / by Lieut. R. H. Jayne |
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