Word: plowless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Plowless Folly. Nor does Dr. Kellogg think much of "plowless farming," a fad promoted by Edward Faulkner's Plowman's Folly. Sometimes, Kellogg says, it is a good idea to avoid plowing, so as to leave a layer of litter on the surface, but the plowless method works only in special cases. "Some farmers and gardeners," says he, "in the eastern part of the U.S.-especially city gardeners-took the doctrine literally and planted corn in fields of Bermuda grass-corn that got a few inches high, turned yellow, and finally perished...
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