What does misfarm mean?
Misfarm means To do a poor job of farming..
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To do a poor job of farming..
The poet seems to inwardly adopt as his ancestors all the generations of farmers — good and bad, but mostly bad — who for two hundred years have farmed and misfarmed this region along the Kentucky River.
The stretch of land that Father inherited from his father was misfarmed by every generation for over seventy-five years and was gray, unwilling soil.
Schlesinger contrasts Morgan's approach unfavorably with the more incentive-based approaches of his RVA codirectors David Lilienthal and H.A. Morgan, neither of whom shared Arthur Morgan's or Roosevelt's passion for using the TVA as a means of social mastery: Where Arthur Morgan would pass a law depriving a farmer of land he has misfarmed, Lilienthal and H. A. Morgan would offer him inducements to use his land more wisely.
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Misfarm means To do a poor job of farming..
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The poet seems to inwardly adopt as his ancestors all the generations of farmers — good and bad, but mostly bad — who for two hundred years have farmed and misfarmed this region along the Kentucky River.
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