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ridging

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Hills came round encircling it entirely—dark land ridging up and lying away out, even to seaward.

Ridging the land tends to lessen the amount of moisture in the soil because it increases the evaporating surface.

The grower of green asparagus has about the same work, less the ridging and plowing down.

I cultivate my orchard to corn as long as I can without injuring the trees, and use a plow; avoid ridging too much.

The Ridging Box, or Baitana, is used for raising low ridges on the flat to retain the water for irrigation purposes.

Deep planting is the first safeguard, and this is rendered still more effectual by ridging up the rows.

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After the varnish has set past a certain tack and the brush is then drawn through it, roughing and ridging occurs.

He even endeavored to force a smile but it was hardly more than a ridging of his cheek muscles under his bristly beard.

There are occasional fields of sainfoin and of turnips; but these latter are small, and no ridging or hurdling is yet practised.

He relies upon ridging, and the proper disposition of open furrows, in the old Greek way.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985