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One that is engaged in the production and care of horses, cattle, sheep, and other useful animals for the market, for show purposes, or for racing.

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  • A stockbreeder uses this drastic measure regularly-and culls the defectives and winds up with a healthy stabilized line.
  • He was one of those who had much to lose and little indeed to gain by taking up arms against us, for, by honest industry, he had become a wealthy farmer and stockbreeder.
  • And this, mark you, without the intervention of any stockbreeder, human or divine, and without will, purpose, design, or even consciousness beyond the blind will to...
  • The author is a practical farmer and stockbreeder, and is able to vouch for the correctness of the remedies for diseases of Domestic Animals, as well as the best mode of...
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