True conservation had to begin with “that combination of solicitude, foresight, and skill which we call husbandry,” practiced by landowners on their own land. From Wordnik.com. [Aldo Leopold's Legacy] Reference
Similarly exploring this new form of animal husbandry is Dressing the Meat of Tomorrow by James King. From Wordnik.com. [Elastic] Reference
Many of Yunnan nomadic tribes or those engaged in husbandry, in particular, relied on agricultural products from Sichuan. From Wordnik.com. [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference
Today many ag and retail food concerns find it expedient to employ persons well versed in husbandry/ag production to vet the methods and policies of their suppliers. From Wordnik.com. [Firearms Superlatives, Part II] Reference
As in husbandry the sower may cast his seed in a dry and parched soil with desponding fears, so those shall reap abundant fruit who toil in tears with the prayer of faith. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
"husbandry," is not so probable. men of the east -- denoting in Scripture those living east of Palestine; as the people of North Arabia-Deserta (Jud 6: 3; Eze 25: 4). From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
There is very little that could be called husbandry in the care and treatment that most food animals receive today. From Wordnik.com. [MAIL CALL: A HUMBLE DEFENDER OF THE CATHOLIC FAIT] Reference
The road, level as a floor for most of the way, lay between fields, orchards and vineyards so well cultivated that they recalled the husbandry of older lands. From Wordnik.com. [Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life,] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876] Reference
But animal husbandry is universal. From Wordnik.com. [Bovine Intervention] Reference
The word 'husbandry' has an old-world flavour now: the classical. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
He first introduced this kind of husbandry into the Western islands. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides] Reference
It is the picture of "husbandry;" which used to be synonymous with farming. From Wordnik.com. [theleafchronicle.com - Local News] Reference
It was bloody well me that found Mr Tonmbe practising a different kind of "husbandry" with my favorite goat. From Wordnik.com. [Brunmarde.com: Varia] Reference
Incidentally, Arnold, O'Neill and Bell were not certain what kind of husbandry implement you encountered, based on your photo. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Borrowing invites more private dangers: It supplants domestic thrift ( "husbandry") -- in Polonius's eyes, an important gentlemanly value. From Wordnik.com. Reference
There were some enterprising and prosperous landowners who used newer and better methods, and even wrote books about "husbandry," as agriculture was called. From Wordnik.com. [A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.] Reference
He was fond of antiquarianism, but more eager still about the condition of the people -- what kind of husbandry they practised, what wages they had, and what food. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Kilgobbin] Reference
But we should note that the one kind of husbandry spoken of here is pruning -- not manuring, not digging, but simply the hacking away of all that is rank and all that is dead. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI] Reference
Good husbandry and unshackled enterprise throughout. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
French farmer in this particular branch of husbandry. From Wordnik.com. [In the Flash Ranging Service Observations of an American Soldier During His Service With the A.E.F. in France] Reference
Hate not laborious works, nor husbandry ordained by the most. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference
Drainage with tiles is a new branch of husbandry in America. From Wordnik.com. [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference
The obstacles to sheep husbandry in certain parts of the United. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference
Hate not laborious works, nor husbandry ordained by the most High. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision] Reference
So he makes an essay upon husbandry: "He began to be a husbandman.". From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
I understand that improved animal husbandry will likely mean higher meat prices. From Wordnik.com. [Meathead Goldwyn: Meathead To Go Meatless: Call Me Potatohead] Reference
United States Department of Agriculture had to say about animal husbandry and ranch management. From Wordnik.com. [Make Mine Homogenized] Reference
After high school, Mr. Henrikson considered studying animal husbandry but majored in English literature. From Wordnik.com. [MetLife's Singing CEO Seeks the Right Note] Reference
Fishing attracts labour by a larger immediate return, acquired with less bodily exertion than in husbandry. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
The stove, the broom, the needle, the hoe, and the axe are ever the familiar implements of her household husbandry. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
Some utensil or implement necessary to their husbandry is wanting or has been lost or broken, and cannot be replaced. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
They paid the expences of their passage, and furnished them with clothes, arms, ammunition, and instruments of husbandry. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference
Then the planter's views are turned to the advantages of trade, and the merchant's, in return, to the success of husbandry. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference
England, for bettering the condition of labourers in husbandry, by giving them, at a reasonable rent, a quarter of an acre of land to keep. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
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