Tired of being outsmarted by Mr. Fox, the farmers devise a plan to attempt to shoot him by sneaking up on him a certain distance from his hole, blasting shots at their enemy, only to shoot off his tail.

George Washington Carver pioneered crop rotation methods in the United States by teaching southern farmers to rotate soil-depleting crops like cotton with soil-enriching crops like peanuts and peas.

Many farmers and plantation owners, including U. S. Presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, cut and stored ice in the winter for use in the summer.

Washington County is centered on a fertile plain that attracted farmers before the first wagon trains.

After a series of demonstrations by farmers, President George Washington sent troops to stop the rebellion.

Its creation was a result of a petition earlier that year by businessmen in Portland complaining of the inconvenient location of the Washington County seat in Hillsboro and of the share of Portland tax revenues leaving the city to support Washington County farmers.

Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver were both active in farming in Franklin, assisting farmers both black and white.

Today, Washington Boro remains famous for the tomatoes grown by its farmers.

Hylton began his career as a " huckster ", a young man who sold farm goods and produce at the farmers ' market in Washington, DC.

The Western Washington Fairgrounds were developed giving local farmers a place to exhibit their crops and livestock.

In 1783, in correspondence with Washington, he urged the emancipation of slaves ; and to establish them as tenant farmers.

* The farmers market in Watertown, where farmers, vendors, bakers, and many others set up an open market every Wednesday from 6 AM to 3 PM all along Washington Street to advertise and sell their produce.

Durbin's campaign emphasized unemployment and financial difficulties facing farmers, and told voters that electing him would send " a message to Washington and to President Reagan that our economic policies are not working.

The excise tax on whiskey was so despised it led to the Whiskey Rebellion which had to be quelled by Washington calling up the militia and repressing the rebellious farmers -- all were later pardoned.

Supported by George Washington but with limited personnel, Eddy's attacking force consisted of " about twenty " Americans from Machias, Maine, 27 Yankee settlers from the Saint John River valley, 140 Malisseet and four Mi ' kmaq, 21 Acadians from the Memramcook Valley and the Allen family farm, and about 120 farmers from Cumberland, Onslow, and Pictou.

In the southern portions of the region, there were also large and diverse non-Hispanic populations: The Highland Park, Arroyo Seco and El Sereno sections facing South Pasadena was known for a large Black community, as there are many African Americans including the former " Calle de Los Negroes " or the Chinese quarter ; Boyle Heights was heavily Armenian, Serbian, Jewish, Portuguese and Japanese ; Lincoln Heights was heavily Italian ; and finally the 1930s-era Okies colony of Mount Washington and Monte Sereno where many poor white farmers and American Indians settled, it is also where the Southwest Museum of the American Indian is located in the neighborhood where thousands of Native Americans were resettled by the BIA Urban Indians relocation program in the 1950s.

Washington points to two treaties acquired by his administration, Jay Treaty and Pinckney's Treaty, which established the borders of the United States ' western territories between Spanish Mexico and British Canada, and secured the rights of western farmers to ship goods along the Mississippi River to New Orleans.

It afforded New Jersey farmers the opportunity to bring their produce down Washington Springs Road to the river, where they could ship it across to the east side of the Hudson and continue down to New York City.

Snedens Landing provided these farmers and quarrymen with the first access for a stretch of about 13 miles above Burdetts Landing, or roughly the spot where the George Washington Bridge connects New Jersey and New York today.

Stroup worked as a lobbyist for family farmers for a few years in Washington, DC, and he lobbied for artists in Boston, MA, before being hired as the executive director of the National Association for Criminal Defense Lawyers ( NACDL ), the specialized bar association for criminal lawyers, also in Washington, DC, where he worked from 1989 through 1994.

A few scientific farmers ( mostly wealthy planters like George Washington ) began fertilizing their fields with dung and lime and rotating their crops to keep the soil fertile.

The higher price supports provided by the new legislation, together with rising prices for farm products, are pushing up farm income, making it possible for farmers to afford the new machinery.

The Government reported last week that the index of prices received by farmers rose in the month ended at mid-September for the third consecutive month, reaching 242% of the 1910-14 average compared with 237% at mid-July.

Agriculture may create a negative impact on their population due to use of poisons by farmers.

They are often considered useful, non-dangerous animals by farmers.

The Alpanschluss (" coming down from the alps ") is celebrated by decorating the cows with garlands and enormous cowbells while the farmers dress in traditional costumes.

The government also purchased 1. 3 million acres from large estate holders for subdivision and closer settlement by small farmers.

As the numbers of settlers from the mainland increased ( at first mostly prisoners and involuntary indentured labourers, later purposely recruited farmers ), these indigenous people lost territory and numbers in the face of punitive expeditions by British troops, land encroachment and the effects of various epidemic diseases.

A report by Jean Ziegler, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, notes that " millions of farmers are losing their livelihoods in the developing countries, but small farmers in the northern countries are also suffering " and concludes that " the current inequities of the global trading system are being perpetuated rather than resolved under the WTO, given the unequal balance of power between member countries.

One argument often made by the opponents of the anti-globalization movement ( especially by The Economist ), is that one of the major causes of poverty amongst third-world farmers are the trade barriers put up by rich nations and poor nations alike.

On the other hand, there have been notable protests against certain globalization policies by Third World workers as in the cause of Indian farmers protesting against patenting seeds.

Predominantly farmers, the Mossi are still bound by the traditions of the Mogho Naba, who hold court in Ouagadougou.

Disraeli sought to alleviate this disadvantage by differentially raising income tax rates against non-farmers and lowering income taxes for the farmers.

Early farmers cultivated many popular vegetables from the Brassica oleracea ( wild cabbage ) by artificially selecting for certain attributes.

This was compounded by mass flooding of the Yellow River ; silt buildup caused it to split into two channels and displaced large numbers of farmers.

Security of tenure for farmers was introduced, while consumers were protected by food subsidies and the redistributive effects of deficiency payments.

Many of these booms may be attributable to bird-scarers, automated cannon-like devices used by farmers to scare birds away from the many vineyards, orchards and crops.

It also included “ information such as weather forecasts, farmers ' planting dates, astronomical information, and tide tables, Astronomical data and various statistics, such as the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, lists of all types, timelines, and more .” Mather had within the text of the Almanac the positions and motions of these celestial bodies, which he must have calculated by hand.

The lowest hierarchical layer of whites included small farmers, servants, laborers, artisans, as well as the various hangers-on required by the so-called " deficiency Laws "-laws requiring plantations to retain a minimum number of whites to safeguard against slave revolts.

However the great majority of families were headed by farmers, fishermen, craftsmen and laborers.

poaching threatens wildlife populations ( for example, the Painted Hunting Dog, Lycaon pictus is now considered extinct in the Congo due to human overpopulation and poaching ); water pollution ; deforestation ( chiefly due to land conversion to agriculture by indigenous farmers ); refugees responsible for significant deforestation, soil erosion, and wildlife poaching ; mining of minerals ( coltan — a mineral used in creating capacitors, diamonds, and gold ) causing environmental damage

Major parts in the spread ( and thus more durable growth ) of the population were played by monastical ' pioneering ' ( especially by the Benedictine and Commercial orders ) and some feudal lords ' recruiting farmers to settle ( and become tax payers ) by offering relatively good legal and fiscal conditions.