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manure

[muh-noor, -nyoor] / məˈnʊər, -ˈnjʊər /


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That is because she uses green manure and legume crops.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

Try selling that cart of manure to the public.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

They argued the cows had degraded the seashore with manure pollution and soil erosion, harming the native wildlife.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

Some POWs said there were still traces of manure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

The carriage was close and smelled of damp hay and stale horse manure.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

Sewage discharges, runoff of fertilisers and manures from farms and wastewater from industry can all increase nutrient levels in rivers and estuaries.

From BBC ● May 2, 2026

This includes more efficient use of manures and extracting nutrients from sewage, and using more legume crops in rotations to take advantage of the fact that they enhance nutrients in the soil.

From Salon ● Jan. 11, 2023

The company also sells bulk-aged and screened manures, organic fertilizers and custom soil mixes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2020

Over decades, both chemical fertilizers and chicken manure and other manures have been applied to the berry crops to provide extra nitrogen to help maximize berry growth.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015

Later there would also be need for seeds and artificial manures, besides various tools and, finally, the machinery for the windmill.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell

At Heligan, the soil was manured, aerated, and assiduously double dug for centuries; plants must have been queuing at the gates.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 2, 2019

Every boulevard shrub had been freshly manured to make the capital a little greener for its first visit, this week, from a U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

We Yahoos who pledged our manured acres and sacred honor for loans to the Yazoos are paying to the last acre, the last cow, the last pig.

From Time Magazine Archive

Within two days, both the chicken culture and a similar culture from heavily manured soil produced the same antibiotic.

From Time Magazine Archive

It has not been manured, and yet is now most extensively productive.

From The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 by Daniel Webster

The difference may be due to monks manuring crops in friary gardens with their own faeces, the study suggests.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2022

Less is known about the manuring practices of lower classes in the town.

From Science Magazine ● Aug. 18, 2022

When traditional methods became too unprofitable to protect their independence, farmers began manuring their fields and clearing wood lots to boost productivity.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

A better plan, perhaps, is to manure heavily the previous crop, frequently potatoes, no direct manuring then being needed for the bulbs, these not being left in the ground more than two or three years.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various

In his report, Mr. Jameson mentions that, when ripe, the seeds are sown in drills, eight to ten inches apart from each other, the ground having been previously prepared by trenching and manuring.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by


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