(n.) A mixture for fertilizing land; esp., a composition of various substances (as muck, mold, lime, and stable manure) thoroughly mingled and decomposed, as in a compost heap.
(v. t.) To manure with compost.
(v. t.) To mingle, as different fertilizing substances, in a mass where they will decompose and form into a compost.
Example Sentences:
(1) In autumn, leaf-heaps composted themselves on sunken patios, and were shovelled up by irritated owners of basement flats.
(2) Composting loos should be the answer to the world's toilet crisis Read more The water and sanitation target is simple and unambiguous: by 2030 every man, woman and child – whether at home, school, hospital or their workplace – should have access to a safe water supply and be able to go to the toilet in a clean space with privacy.
(3) To give a plant a good start, sow the seed into fine compost – this is usually called seed compost and is available at garden centres.
(4) There are numerous sustainable options, including packing materials made from corn starch or sorghum , which can be composted .
(5) At most sampling points, coliform bacteria declined to low or undetectable numbers early in the composting period.
(6) Dairy waste solids in each compost pile were heated into the thermophilic temperature range and generally composted well.
(7) It was concluded that the active indigenous flora of compost establishes a homeostatic barrier to colonization by salmonellae, and in the absence of competing flora, reinoculated salmonellae may grow to potentially hazardous densities.
(8) Studies have shown that more natural soil amendments, like compost, manure and charcoal products, like those produced by the Biochar Company , can reduce atmospheric carbon and keep soils highly productive.
(9) Findings of this study suggest that composting offers little benefit toward net reduction in coliform bacterial numbers in dairy waste solids.
(10) I picked the strawberries growing up the side of my compost loo for breakfast; physalis and ferns were growing inside my shower; I snacked on pitanga, a delicious sweet-sour berry.
(11) With a proper storage time of 12 months, the resulting compost can be used to grow trees and food crops.
(12) The high-concentration metals in municipal refuse compost were tested for effects on cellulase production and activity in Thermomonospora curvata.
(13) It was also regularly isolated as a dominant fungus during forced aeration composting and after 30 days in an unaerated stationary curing pile; in both cases, the fungus was found in pile zones with temperatures less than 60 degrees C. Compost stored outdoors in stationary unaerated piles from 1 to 4 months after screening out of woodchips contained easily detectable amounts of A. fumigatus in the exterior pile zones (0- to 25-cm depths).
(14) Over the last five years, we’ve trained more than 20 compost technicians and built over a dozen large compost sites for emergency settings, primary schools, NGO compounds, and housing projects — providing simple, clean composting toilets and on-site waste treatment for thousands of people.
(15) Courgettes like full sun, well composted fertile ground and regular watering in dry weather.
(16) Composting of wastes from swine feeding operations was studied.
(17) But in terms of building the actual toilets and compost site, simple inexpensive materials are all that are needed.
(18) The compost piles consisted of ground corn husks, straw, and race horse manure.
(19) This made it necessary to compost the manure liquid and use it after subsidiary thermal treatment.
(20) It has been proved that the method can be successfully used for the determination of biochemical changes in microbe cultures, the soil, in composts, in farmyard manures etc.
Manure
Definition:
(v. t.) To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.
(v. t.) To apply manure to; to enrich, as land, by the application of a fertilizing substance.
(n.) Any matter which makes land productive; a fertilizing substance, as the contents of stables and barnyards, dung, decaying animal or vegetable substances, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The metacercaria-detecting buoy method was applied to rice fields fertilized with cattle manure for 7 days in mid-summer, as well as to fields located closely to cattle pens, but not fertilized.
(2) Salmonella contamination of swine and morbidity rates among the workers of swine-breeding complexes and the members of their families, as well as among the population inhabiting the zone of possible influence rendered by such complexes on the environment, have been studied as exemplified by 4 complexes for large-scale swine breeding, differing in their technology of swine raising and fattening, their systems of the purification and utilization of manure-containing sewage.
(3) Even at this rate of application, the manure did not contaminate the irrigated grass with enteropathogenic bacteria after irrigation.
(4) Emissions from livestock, largely from burping cows and sheep and their manure, currently make up almost 15% of global emissions.
(5) Results of all the parameters tested showed markedly higher increases with farmyard manure than with nitrogenous fertilizer and in the control, without significant differences between the latter two.
(6) The concept of the epidemiology of Cryptococcus neoformans as the causative agent of cryptococcosis and as a basidiomycetous yeast is based on the fact that bird manure has been until now its only known habitat but not plant material which likewise harbours various nonpathogenic Cryptococcus species.
(7) Permethrin (0.05%) applied as a direct treatment to the hens resulted in slight reductions in numbers of Histeridae and Staphylinidae in the manure.
(8) Studies have shown that more natural soil amendments, like compost, manure and charcoal products, like those produced by the Biochar Company , can reduce atmospheric carbon and keep soils highly productive.
(9) Simultaneous processes of nitrification and denitrification were observed in optimal aerated manure similar to activated sludge processes.
(10) The studies were carried out in Erlenmeyer with parasite free liquid manure taken from a bovine cowshed.
(11) Let’s clean out the manure-filled stables of a political system that has become characterized by greed,” he wrote in his online declaration .
(12) The transport process of nutrients, leaf-manures and plant-protecting agents in plants was investigated by radioabsorption method.
(13) In this preliminary study, we have investigated the evolutionary and survival capacities of parasitic elements in liquid manure, their development potential after extraction and the destructive action of xylene in concentration of 1 p. 1000.
(14) Because swine manure slurry had been applied to the pasture where the sheep had grazed, a copper analysis was conducted on soil and forage samples from this field.
(15) Most farm problems with animal wastes occur in modern intensive livestock enterprises where manure is handled as a slurry.
(16) This is especially true for aeration and manuring of soil both of which stimulate unspecifically the proliferation and activity of microorganisms, and indirectly also a co-metabolism of xenobiotics.
(17) The compost piles consisted of ground corn husks, straw, and race horse manure.
(18) This made it necessary to compost the manure liquid and use it after subsidiary thermal treatment.
(19) It has been proved that the method can be successfully used for the determination of biochemical changes in microbe cultures, the soil, in composts, in farmyard manures etc.
(20) Daily water consumption increased 4-fold and daily manure wet weight increased two-fold in affected hens.