From the italicized phrase it meant prepared for harvesting. When an area of land is cultivated, that it seeds has been planted or sown and it normal agronomic practices as been carried out on it, after some times the plants and matured and it is then been harvested. From the phrase, since the land has already been cultivated, the person is preparing to harvest the cultivated land or crops planted. Harvest set in after cultivation.
t changed because at first he refused to let them in. Then after the British started offering to free the slaves that fought on there side, Washington decided to let them fight on his side too
