Lois Weedon

System of husbandry devised by Jethro Tull, whereby the land was divided into narrow strips, of which alternate, ones were planted and the intervening ones kept thoroughly cultivated during the season. The following season the cultivated portion was planted and the other cultivated. Tull claimed that by this system there could be secured a crop equal in amount to that received from the whole area under ordinary circumstances, and that the practice could be maintained indefinitely. It has never come into general use in America. IMG:content-1140.png:[merged small][graphic][merged small] the posterior end, where it is provided with two lateral folds or fins. It has eight short and two long arms furnished with suckers (acetabula) that have each a row of fine teeth around IMG:content-1141.png:[blocks in formation] the margin. A horny gladius (pen) is lodged in the mantle; sometimes several pens are present. Lollards. (1) Flemish sect or order, be beginning 1300; (2) and chiefly, followers of Wiclif, persecuted in England 14001431, but never extirpated.