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Prunes do not require clean orchard floors for harvest, and most of the cover crop is allowed to reseed before being mowed.
Grandsons often did chores such as cutting wood, mowing grass or providing transport.
Mature swards were left without mowing after the preliminary cut, allowing approximately 8 weeks of regrowth.
The rye was mown and incorporated into the soil by disking in spring 2003.
They also maintained their orchard floors by mowing resident vegetation and avoiding or reducing tillage, which can be a money-saving strategy.
In strategy (ii) the ryegrass- clover ley was maintained over the whole experiment and was regularly cut (mowed three times and then mulched).
In our experiment, the regenerative capacity of thistles was considerably lower than that of clover when ryegrass- clover ley was mowed and/or mulched.
They systematically raided isolated villages, often mowing down the inhabitants before robbing their homes.
On two (1996) or three (1995 and 1997) occasions during the grazing season, manually formed faecal pats were randomly deposited on newly mown pasture plots.
Residues were mown prior to corn planting and after corn harvest.
The 2003 organic site was planted to fall rye in the fall of 2001, which was mowed throughout the summer of 2002.
Widespread use of mowing machines only became possible as the landscapes were simplified.
However, the period we are discussing was the transitional period for the diffusion of the technique of mowing wheat with scythes.
For instance, within the domain of verbs of cutting, mow, trim, and prune are quite distant from cut, the prototypical member of the group, whereas slice is nearer.
Agricultural tasks like haymaking and mowing sometimes mentioned one or two named employees together with various ' others ', suggesting that the principal workmen recruited further labour of their own accord.
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