![]() ![]() ![]() And then you get an undersea, desolate landscape of just muck and mud and sand. So you're going to see the slow decline of the coral reefs in the area. You can have an El Niño climate change impact on a coral reef let's say it kills 40 % of the coral, but if you have swimmers there with sunscreen pollution, you're not going to have new generations coming in. We're looking at all these things, which would be for next year obviously, we've made a big enough muck-up to do that for this year so we must not do that again. Money is like muck, not good except it be spread. Some muck land has been reclaimed for wildlife preserves. Oxidation also removes a portion of the soil each year, so it becomes progressively shallower. It also can catch fire and burn underground for months. It is prone to problems, such as the fact that it is very light and usually windbreaks must be provided to keep it from blowing away when dry. It is unlikely that any more will be created in the United States, because of environmental regulations. Muck farming is controversial, because the drainage of wetlands destroys wildlife habitats and results in a variety of environmental problems. The muckland of Torrey Farms of Elba, New York, which covers the counties of Orleans, Niagara, and Genesee, is thought to be the largest continuous section of muckland in the world. The soils are deep, dark colored, and friable, often underlain by marl, or marly clay. American "muckers" often have roots from the Netherlands or Eastern Europe, where their ancestors practiced a similar type of farming. Muck farming on drained bogs is an important part of agriculture in New York, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Florida, where mostly vegetables are grown. Holland Marsh, north of Toronto, Ontario, is the site of the Muck Crops Research Station, a part of the University of Guelph. It is used there, as in the United States, for growing specialty crops such as onions, carrots, celery, and potatoes. It is known as black soil in The Fens of eastern England, where it was originally mainly fen and bog. Muck is a soil made up primarily of humus from drained swampland. Thy garden plot lately wel trenched and mucktįreebase (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: Satire’s my weapon, but I am too discreet ![]() To run a Muck, signifies, I know not from what derivation, to run madly and attack all that we meet.įrontless and satire-proof he scow’rs the streets, Reward of worldly muck doth foully blend,įairy Queen, b. Shine, buzz and fly-blow in the setting sun.Īlexander Pope. Rich foreign mold, on their ill-natur’d land The swine may see the pearl, which yet he values but with the ordinary muck. It is usual to help the ground with muck, and likewise to recomfort with muck put to the roots but to water it with muck water, which is like to be more forcible, is not practised. Hale out thy mucke, and plow out thy ground. Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition:Įtymology: meox, Saxon myer, Islandick. ![]()
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