The necessity for these magazines is owing to the precarious character of the crops,-a peculiarity of which is that there may be an abundance in one locality, and a partial or even total failure of the crop in another, though they may be separated by only a few miles from each other.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
What is the crop of a bed?
"Geology"
James Geikie
With that in view, I wish to raise a larger crop, and I'm open to hire somebody.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton