Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word stockraising.
Examples
-
Today, for those cultures where stockraising forms a vital part of their livelihood plants are a primary source of prevention and control of livestock diseases.
-
We propose to give the same boost to stockraising that we are giving to coffee, tobacco, root crops, and all the other crops.
-
It lies in the center of a region devoted to cacao planting and stockraising.
Santo Domingo A Country with a Future Otto Schoenrich
-
Although the area under wheat has not yet attained large dimensions in that State, principally because stockraising proves so profitable, good average yields are obtained as compared with the other States, and considerable scientific attention is being devoted to wheat culture.
Wheat Growing in Australia Australia. Dept. of External Affairs
-
In all the States the usual course has been for wheat to follow stockraising, after the latter have sweetened and improved the soil, making it more compact and suitable for cultivation.
Wheat Growing in Australia Australia. Dept. of External Affairs
-
Like the other villages of the Maguana valley its chief industry is stockraising.
Santo Domingo A Country with a Future Otto Schoenrich
-
At present stockraising proves most profitable, but there is no question that in the course of time that State will add immensely to the wheat belt of the Commonwealth.
Wheat Growing in Australia Australia. Dept. of External Affairs
-
Just think of the advantage it would be in a country where mining is going on, to have a stockraising community all about you.
-
These tribes are still in the hunting and fishing stage; they make no pretence of agriculture or stockraising.
The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake Ernest Thompson Seton 1903
-
The stockraising homestead law, as it is called, permits
The Passing of the Frontier; a chronicle of the old West Emerson Hough 1890
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.