The Sporting Dictionary, and Rural Repository, Volume 1 (of 2) / Of General Information upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the Field

by William Taplin

FALLOW LAND

—is land so called when under no immediate cultivation, but ploughed up, and laid at rest, to acquire, from its exposure to the elements, additional strength for the production of future crops. Of these there are both summer and winter fallows; upon the last of which, if dry, HARES may generally be found in the months of January, February, and March, if there are any to be seen in the country.