Where landfarming practices have been used in conjunction with seeding, hydrocarbon loss may be more attributable to volatilization from tilling than biodegradation from exotic microorganisms.
This typically involves adding appropriate amounts of water (irrigating) and nutrients (fertilizing), and maximizing substrate-microbe contact (periodic tilling) to further stimulate microbial activity and contaminant degradation.
One of the greatest problems in road haulage is the tilling of the often empty lorry on its return journey.
They are now engaged in the much more fruitful avocation of tilling fertile soil and looking forward with certainty to the harvest which will ensue.
Why not give these poor people an opportunity of breaking up this land and tilling it?
But the gentleman who is making his living in the country by tilling his soil, will be in a position of very great difficulty.
If they combine their operations by keeping cattle and tilling the soil, viz.
Every person engaged in tilling the land will reduce the tonnage necessary to bring food to this country.
