bring under cultivation

Example Sentences

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The area of land which may be thus reclaimed and fertilized is very large, but the actual quantity which it will be found economically expedient to bring under cultivation cannot now be determined.

From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by Marsh, George P.

We set to work assiduously to bring under cultivation the wild country in which we were placed, and God prospered our labours.

From Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar by Landells, R. T.

When a farmer comes into the possession of a virgin soil, in a short time he will bring under cultivation a large field.

From Tablets of the Divine Plan by `Abdu'l-Bahá

Of course I promised not to say a word unless asked for explanations, and after breakfast we all went to a part of the grounds which I wished to bring under cultivation.

From In the Track of the Troops by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

I determined with these and the assistance of our own party to bring under cultivation as many acres of ground as I could manage.

From Peter Biddulph The Story of an Australian Settler by Kingston, William Henry Giles