stock-raiser

Some years ago, an experienced stock-raiser informed the writer that it takes two acres of land and two years to produce a steer weighing 600 pounds when dressed.

Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Seventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. September 8 and 9, 1916.

"Huh! wolves again!" exclaimed the stock-raiser, with a frown.

The Saddle Boys in the Grand Canyon or The Hermit of the Cave James Carson

A generous space has been devoted to the consideration of that fatal epidemic, now generally known as "Pleuro-Pneumonia," as it has manifested itself in Europe and this country, in the belief that a matter of such vital importance to the stock-raiser ought to receive a complete exposition in a work like the present.

Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure Robert Jennings

Although a hard drinker, an unscrupulous rascal and an inveterate gambler, he was a good stock-raiser, and kept good care of his cattle.

Jim Cummings Or, The Great Adams Express Robbery A. Frank [pseud.] Pinkerton

It was considered the home of the fur-trader and the hunter more than that of the farmer or the stock-raiser.

Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police R.G. MacBeth

; Zeta Psi; Pi Sigma; lawyer 1897-1911; stock-raiser 1912 -; Beaufort co. recorder's et.

Alumni History of the University of North Carolina 1793-1962 1924

Without the railroad, the farmer who did not live near a navigable stream must remain a backwoodsman; he must make his own farm or his immediate community a self-sufficing unit; he must get from his own land bread and meat and clothing for his family; he must be stock-raiser, grain-grower, farrier, tinker, soap-maker, tanner, chandler -- Jack-of-all-trades and master of none.

The Agrarian Crusade; a chronicle of the farmer in politics 1923

Grande valley as a stock-raiser, but the natural advantages of the country had appealed to his gambling instinct, and he had "gone broke" buying land.

Heart of the Sunset Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

Just as a gardener or stock-raiser is not content with the existing nature of the plants and animals with which he is occupied, but modifies them to suit his purposes, so also the scientific philosopher must not think of existing human nature as immutable, but must try to modify it for the advantage of mankind.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Various 1909

By carefully availing himself of the controlling power given him by a knowledge of this fact, the stock-raiser is enabled to produce almost any required quality in his young animals.

Plain Facts for Old and Young John Harvey Kellogg 1897