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  • Government can't raise crops, maintain small scattered structures, administer small scattered areas, or bring to bear on small local matters that combination of solicitude, foresight, and skill which we call husbandry.

    Excerpts from Aldo Leopold's Writings 2008

  • Of course, these paintings served the dual purpose of depicting the techniques and implements used by the Chinese, who were famous for their efficiency in husbandry.

    The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005

  • Jackeymo's finer skill was developed rather on the minute scale of market-gardening than what can fairly be called husbandry.

    My Novel — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Jackeymo's finer skill was developed rather on the minute scale of market-gardening than what can fairly be called husbandry.

    My Novel — Volume 05 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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