If the stalk of corn were short (I answered), I should cut down close, to secure a sufficient length of straw to be of use. But if the stalk be tall, you would do right, I hold, to cut it half-way down, whereby the thresher and the winnower will be saved some extra labour (which both may well be spared).[4] The stalk left standing in the field, when burnt down (as burnt it will be, I presume), will help to benefit the soil;[5] and laid on as manure, will serve to swell the volume of manure.[6]英文原著 · 《The Economist》
There were sheep in some of these, cows in others, and the pastures wonderfully green and rich, being always well manured, and fed down by cattle.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
"'As I have already had the honor to tell your Majesty that I keep seventy head of cows more than he, I have of course more manure for my ground, and so put it in a better case for bearing wheat.'英文原著 · 《Appendix to History of Friedrich II of Prussia》
"Why did you not write to me?" he said to Derville. "Go along by the cowhouse! There--the path is paved there," he exclaimed, seeing the lawyer's hesitancy, for he did not wish to wet his feet in the manure heap.英文原著 · 《Colonel Chabert》
Derville looked at the dairyman, and stepped back a few paces to glance at the house, the yard, the manure-pool, the cowhouse, the rabbits, the children.英文原著 · 《Colonel Chabert》
"I, who before, with shepherds in the groves, Sung to my oaten pipe their rural loves, And issuing thence, compelled the neighb'ring field A plenteous crop of rising corn to yield; Manured the glebe, and stocked the fruitful plain (A poem grateful to the greedy swain)," &c.英文原著 · 《Discourses on Satire and Epic Poetry》
I'm sure you're aware of the Great London Horse Manure Crisis of 1894.美剧 · 《Sillicon Valley》
and more people equals more horses, and more horses equals more manure.美剧 · 《Sillicon Valley》
And it was predicted that by the middle of the next century, there would be nine feet of manure covering the streets.美剧 · 《Sillicon Valley》
And what we could use as a binder was actually small amounts of cow manure, And what we could use as a binder was actually small amounts of cow manure,演讲 · 《Simple designs to save a life ~ Amy Smith》