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2. Land that has lain a year or more untilled
or unseeded; land plowed without being sowed for the
season.

The plowing of fallows is a benefit to
land.

3. The plowing or tilling of land, without
sowing it for a season; as, summer fallow, properly conducted,
has ever been found a sure method of destroying weeds.

Be a complete summer fallow, land is rendered
tender and mellow. The fallow gives it a better tilth than can
be given by a fallow crop.

Fallow crop, the crop taken from a green
fallow. [Eng.] -- Green fallow, fallow
whereby land is rendered mellow and clean from weeds, by cultivating
some green crop, as turnips, potatoes, etc. [Eng.]

Fal"low (?), v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Fallowed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Fallowing.] [From Fallow, n.] To
plow, harrow, and break up, as land, without seeding, for the purpose
of destroying weeds and insects, and rendering it mellow; as, it is
profitable to fallow cold, strong, clayey land.


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