manured's Usage Examples:

Upon the London Clay the land is generally heavy and stiff, but very fruitful when properly manured and cultivated.

The ground should be kept free of weeds by frequent hoeing and, if not subject to periodical alluvial floods, manured yearly.

The ground has to be thoroughly cleared of stones, manured and trenched, and the corms are planted in ridges.

Ray, who made a tour along the eastern coast in that year, says, " We observed little or no fallow ground in Scotland; some ley ground we saw, which they manured with sea wreck.

The land for their reception must be thoroughly well tilled and manured.

Bedding plants thrive best in a light loam, liberally manured with thoroughly rotten dung from an old hotbed or thoroughly decomposed cow droppings and leaf-mould.

Bellew gives the following statement of the manner in which the soil is sometimes worked in the Kandahar district: - Barley is sown in November; in March and April it is twice cut for fodder; in June the grain is reaped, the ground is ploughed and manured and sown with tobacco, which yields two cuttings.

Parts of the Peten district are equally fertile, maize in this region yielding two hundredfold from unmanured soil.

The clay marls are, like clay soils, too stiff for garden purposes until well worked and heavily manured; but loamy marls are fertile and well suited to fruit trees, and sandy marls are adapted for producing early crops.

Portions of the pasture lands were reserved as meadows; the tilled land was manured.

Maize or Indian corn was cultivated on patches of ground where, as in the Hindu jam, the trees and bushes were burnt and the seed planted in the soil manured by the ashes.

In Lombardy a six-year shift is common: either wheat, clover, maize, rice, rice, rice (the last year manured with lupines) or maize, wheat followed by clover, clover, clover ploughed in, and rice, rice and rice manured with lupines.

Synonyms:

chicken manure, night soil, horse manure, organic, green manure, organic fertilizer, organic fertiliser, cow manure,

Antonyms:

gather, unwholesome, unhealthful, inorganic, inessential,