pig-breeding

Monsanto Company, already a world powerhouse in biotech crops, is shaking up the swine industry with plans to patent pig-breeding techniques and lay claim to the animals born as a result.

Peace, order and good government, eh?: August 2005 Archives 2005

More people — many, many more — ought to take to pig-breeding.

Spotted Hemlock Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1958

She gave him no opportunity to do this, but treated him to a lecture on small-scale pig-breeding until the unfortunate man was too much deflated to follow his first instinct and escape.

Spotted Hemlock Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1958

Thus not only was the prototype of Parson Adams discovered, but that of his antithesis, the pig-breeding Mr Trulliber, was thought to exist in the person of the Rev. Mr Oliver, the Dorsetshire curate under whose tutelage Fielding had been placed when a boy.

Henry Fielding: a Memoir G. M. Godden

Motcombe, a neighbouring village; and we have the authority of Murphy and of Hutchins, the historian of Dorset, for finding 'a very humorous and striking portrait 'of this pedagogue in the Rev. Mr Trulliber, the pig-breeding parson of _Joseph Andrews_.

Henry Fielding: a Memoir G. M. Godden

Later, pig-breeding became typical of this culture.

A History of China Wolfram Eberhard 1949

Thus not only was the prototype of Parson Adams discovered, but that of his antithesis, the pig-breeding Mr Trulliber, was thought to exist in the person of the Rev. Mr Oliver, the Dorsetshire curate under whose tutelage Fielding had been placed when a boy.

Henry Fielding A Memoir Godden, G M 1909

Mr Oliver was the curate of Motcombe, a neighbouring village; and we have the authority of Murphy and of Hutchins, the historian of Dorset, for finding 'a very humorous and striking portrait 'of this pedagogue in the Rev. Mr Trulliber, the pig-breeding parson of Joseph Andrews.

Henry Fielding A Memoir Godden, G M 1909

The pig-breeding scientist led a round of applause.

Gossamer 1915 George A. Birmingham 1907

In the first wild enthusiasm of the Garibaldian revolution, even poor, hill-perched, filth-stricken, pig-breeding

Taquisara 1881