A fresh crop of beginners' guns showed up in 1961, and they're good bets for your Christmas gift list if you're wondering what to get for a youngster.

Although the Administration's program cut crop acreage to the lowest point since 1934, farmers, with the help of extra fertilizer and good weather, are getting such high yields per acre that many are being forced to buy new harvesting machines.

Plains in many areas are important for agriculture because where the soils were deposited as sediments they may be deep and fertile, and the flatness facilitates mechanization of crop production ; or because they support grasslands which provide good grazing for livestock.

The rich volcanic soils proved well suited to the new cash crop industry, and soon extensive plantations ( roças ), owned by Portuguese companies or absentee landlords, occupied almost all of the good farmland.

Wheat is widely cultivated as a cash crop because it produces a good yield per unit area, grows well in a temperate climate even with a moderately short growing season, and yields a versatile, high-quality flour that is widely used in baking.

– Ripe strawberries at Pentecost mean a good wine crop.

It focused on maximizing the crop yield while maintaining a good soil ecosystem.

It focused on maximizing the crop yield while maintaining a good soil ecosystem.

The husbandman was bound to carry out proper cultivation, raise an average crop, and leave the field in good tilth.

An experiment showed that 36 % of cabbage root flies laid eggs beside cabbages growing in bare soil ( which resulted in no crop ), compared to only 7 % beside cabbages growing in clover ( which allowed a good crop ).

In a good harvest year, the tupelo honey crop produced by a group of specialized Florida beekeepers has a value approaching US $ 1, 000, 000.

The uplands, however, provided good grazing for livestock, and hay became the principal crop.

The island's of good land encouraged agriculture, with potatoes the chief crop.

Teak and bamboo plantations in India have given good results and an alternative crop solution to farmers of central India, where conventional farming was popular.

Mondavi had been offered a crop of particularly good Sauvignon Blanc grapes by a grower.

The Sementina dies were kept in seed-time at Rome for the purpose of praying for a good crop ; it lasted only for one day, which was fixed by the pontiffs.

Continually growing the same crop on the same fields will deplete the soil in its needed plant nutrients and the crop yields will continually go down or cease — the crop removes the nutrients till they are too low to support good growth.

They are self-sterile, and therefore must have a pollinator variety to supply pollen, and a high bee population to make a good crop.

The benefits provided by no-tillage to predators may lead to larger predator populations, which is a good way to control pests ( biological control ), but also can facilitate predation of the crop itself.

Ripe fruit is very prone to bruising ; difficulty maintaining the fruit in good condition for any length of time, along with the short period of optimum ripeness and full favor, probably explains why feijoas frequently are not exported, and where grown commercially, often only are sold close to the source of the crop.

One may praise someone's good dress sense, and blame the weather for a crop failure.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus exhorts us to " Observe in Alcaeus the sublimity, brevity and sweetness coupled with stern power, his splendid figures, and his clearness which was unimpaired by the dialect ; and above all mark his manner of expressing his sentiments on public affairs ," while Quintilian, after commending Alcaeus for his excellence " in that part of his works where he inveighs against tyrants and contributes to good morals ; in his language he is concise, exalted, careful and often like an orator ;" goes on to add: " but he descended into wantonnness and amours, though better fitted for higher things.

Elsewhere in the New Testament the Rahab of the Book of Joshua is mentioned as an example of a person of faith () and good works (), but these use another Greek word-Ῥαάβ and it is coupled with the term harlot.

* New York Telegraph: " Dramatic suspense and punch, coupled with artistic treatment, are the most conspicuous characteristics of ' Hell's Hinges ' ... swaggering, hard-drinking, fast-shooting, all-round ' bad ' man, with good stuff under a rough exterior, furnished Mr. Hart with a vehicle in which his talents show to best advantage.

", and Adrenaline Vault likened The Curse of Monkey Island to the adventure genre as a whole, saying: " The twin vitals of an adventure game are a good plot coupled with strong dialogue.

Improved remote sensing information, coupled with good knowledge domain on wetlands will facilitate expanded efforts in wetland monitoring and mapping.

Due to its devastating energy costs, and lack of efficient output of students ( 36 students at date of closing for grades 1-6 ), coupled with other reasons, it was shut down for good in 2004.

" Of course, this is incorrect grammar, but it was Johnny Myers ' use of a good home-spun rhetorical device -- known as enallage, coupled with his " dogfighting " metaphor -- to make his point emphatically and effectively that he was not involved in a particular political dispute.

However a couple of by-election victories, and a good performance in the 1994 European elections, coupled with a disastrous showing by the Labour Party, shored up his position.

For seven of the eight years between 1750 and 1758 the silver penny was the only one of the small silver coins ( 1d, 2d, 3d, 4d ) produced ; this fact, coupled with the good condition of most pennies of those years which have come to our time, suggests that they were mainly used for Maundy money.

The U. S. Army needed a good tank and coupled with United Kingdom's demand for 3, 650 medium tanks immediately, the Lee began production by late 1940.

Beckford's decidedly obsessive haste to erect the building as fast and as grandiosely as he could, coupled with the decision ( ultimately pushed by Beckford ), of reaching structurally unsound heights in the building's tower spire, and utilizing for this a method of building labeled " compo-cement " by Wyatt, which consisted in using timber stuccoed with cement, led to the eventual collapse of the tower — damaging the western wing of the building too — in 1825, when Beckford had already sold the building ( for a good price of £ 275, 000 ) to John Farquhar.

He said that while Liszt's musical conceptions were grander, Tausig possessed a better and more accurate technique coupled with a good deal of poetry.

This rare trait in primates, coupled with the ease of observing the species within its wide geographic distribution and its good representation in captivity, makes it a popular subject for research as a model organism.

However, with the advent of New Winkies, coupled with the now flat and dry pitches, teams with good kicks are becoming gradually more and more likely to convert a behind, making the long-standing ropes defensive strategy less useful.

They also launched an anti-Soviet propaganda campaign coupled with a lack of good will in diplomatic relations, although the German Foreign Ministry under Konstantin von Neurath ( foreign minister from 1932 – 1938 ) was vigorously opposed to the impending breakup.

Unfortunately the machinery, much of which Saunders built himself, proved unreliable, particularly at busy times and the resulting delays coupled with a heavy maintenance bill killed the Keedoozle for good in 1949.

Other authors have concluded that perhaps Ringo's memorable name, coupled with his confrontations with the canonically " good " Earp brothers, contributed to his latter-day reputation.

The overall objective of the club is to facilitate the development of a good understanding about relevant business processes, coupled with deep practical knowledge about underlying technologies.

Allmusic journalist, Bruce Eder, stated, " His mix of rough-hewn good looks and unassuming masculinity, coupled with an underlying vulnerability, all presented with a good voice and some serious musical talent, helped turn Fury into a major rock and roll star in short order ".

In a good final day Téfécé beat Girondins de Bordeaux 3 – 1 ( a hat-trick from Johan Elmander ), which, when coupled with the losses of the other contenders and Lille's 93rd-minute equalizer against Rennes, saw Toulouse scrape through.

The rear-engine-induced weight bias coupled to the coil spring suspension endowed the Scarab with very good handling and traction.

He was named in the squad of 13 for the first home Test of the summer, against Sri Lanka, but with the return of Marcus Trescothick, coupled with the good form of Paul Collingwood and the emergence of Alastair Cook, Bell was dropped from the starting 11.

When coupled with thick adobe that exhibits good resistance against heat transmission qualities, the windcatcher is able to chill lower-level spaces in mosques and houses ( e. g. shabestans ) in the middle of the day to frigid temperatures.