Stock raising Sentence Examples

Stock-raising is an important industry, especially in the eastern part of the state.

Xanthium spinosum has spread from the Russian steppes to every stock-raising country in the world, and in some cases has made the industry impossible.

In spite of the predominating interest in stock-raising, intensive cultivation of the soil is practicable where the water supply is sufficient.

In the meantime the crops of cereals increased little, and stock raising generally decreased.

It has very active and varied industries, and is a trade centre for a large grainand fruit-producing and stock-raising region, and has one of the largest nurseries in the United States.

Stock-raising, tobacco-growing, and coal and iron-mining are the industries of the district.

Stock-raising receives some attention and hides and cattle are exported.

Stock-raising was for a time the principal industry, but agriculture has been largely developed in several localities, among the chief products of which are cotton - Coahuila is the principal cotton-producing state in Mexico - Indian corn, wheat, beans, sugar and grapes.

The chief occupation of the majority of the white farmers is stock-raising.

The decline in stock-raising would also suspend the practice of burning off the dead grass to improve the new pasturage.

The department of fomento is charged with the supervision of all matters relating to agriculture, stock-raising, mines, industries, commerce, statistics, immigration, public lands, posts, telegraphs and telephones.

The principal industries are agriculture, which is very backward, stock-raising, timber-cutting, fruitfarming and salt-making.

There are excellent pasture lands, especially in the upland districts, and stock-raising is an important and profitable industry.

The surrounding country is devoted to farming and stock raising.

Stock-raising is pursued chiefly in the east, where the pastures are rich and the water supply unfailing.

Stock-raising receives considerable attention; there are about a score of large cattle ranges, and there is a considerable export of live cattle to Texas and to various Mexican states.

In a small outlying mound de Sarzec discovered the archives of the temple, about 30,000 inscribed clay tablets, containing the business records, and revealing with extraordinary minuteness the administration of an ancient Babylonian temple, the character of its property, the method of farming its lands, herding its flocks, and its commercial and industrial dealings and enterprises; for an ancient Babylonian temple was a great industrial, commercial, agricultural and stock-raising establishment.

Winchester is in an agricultural, lumbering and stock-raising region, and has various manufactures.

The superior qualities of the soil, together with the usually warm and moist months of spring and summer, make Iowa one of the foremost states of the Union in agriculture and stock-raising, especially in the production of Indian corn, oats, hay and eggs, and in the raising of hogs, horses, dairy cows and poultry.

The chief industry is agriculture, including sheep farming and stock raising.

The rainfall is sufficient for good grazing, but except in the Flathead valley cultivation was long considered to be dependent on irrigation; and consequently farming was only incidental to stock raising and mining until after 1870, and as late as 1900 the ratio of improved farm land to the total land area was less than in any other state or territory except New Mexico, Wyoming, Arizona and Hawaii.

Many of the Indians are engaged in stock-raising; the Crows have an irrigation system and are extensively engaged in farming.

Stock-raising dates from the earliest Spanish settlements in Mexico and received no slight encouragement from the mother country.

For this reason much importance has always been attached to the industry, and stock-raising of some sort is to be found in every state of the republic, though not always to a great extent.

Trinidad is in a coal and coke and stock-raising region, and alfalfa, frijole and sugar beets are produced in large quantities in the surrounding region, much of which is irrigated.

The work of the live-stock branch is directed towards the improvement of the stock-raising industry, and is carried on through the agencies of expert teachers and stock judges, the systematic distribution of pure-bred breeding stock, the yearly testing of pure-bred dairy herds, the supervision of the accuracy of the registration of pure-bred animals and the nationalization of live-stock records.

Stock-raising is an important occupation in some of the more elevated districts.

The southern highlands, however, are devoted to stock-raising, which was once an important industry.

Newton is a supply and distributing point for the surrounding agricultural and stock-raising region, and has various manufactures.

Fort Worth lies in the midst of a stock-raising and fertile agricultural region; there is an important stockyard and packing establishment just outside the city; and considerable quantities of cotton are raised in the vicinity.

Situated in the midst of a rich farming and stock-raising country, Goliad has flour mills, cotton gins and cotton-seed oil mills.

In the vicinity of the rivers Benue, Faro and Kebbi, the people, who are good agriculturists, raise cereals and other crops, while on the plateaus stock-raising forms the chief pursuit of the inhabitants.

It is the commercial centre of a large agricultural and stock-raising region, which produces cotton and grain.

He engaged in farming, trading, and stock-raising in Sonora.

In 1834, when the missions had already passed their best days, there were some 486,000 cattle, hoses, mules and asses on the ranges, and 325,000 small animals, principally sheep. Throughout the pre-American period stock-raising was the leading industry; it built up the prosperity of the missions, largely supported the government and almost exclusively sustained foreign commerce.

Agriculture began in the narrow but fertile river valleys, and stock-raising became an important industry, as the native grasses are especially nutritious.

The transition of the principal stock-raising industry from large herds of cattle to small, and the utilization of the ranges for sheep grazing almost exclusively covered a period of over twenty years preceding 1910, during which time many conflicts occurred between range cattle-owners and sheep flockmasters over the use of the grazing grounds.

In the holdings of neat cattle (1,453,971) and sheep (2,045,577) it ranked in 1900 respectively seventeenth and tenth among the states of the Union; in 1907, according to the Yearbook of the Department of Agriculture, there were in the state 1,561,712 neat cattle and 1,677,561 sheep. Stock-raising has always been important.

Stock-raising is the most important industry, and the growing of sheep for wool takes a leading place.

Stock-raising is generally preferred to the growing of cereals, and in western Wales the oat crops exceed in size those of wheat and barley.

Local interests are almost entirely in agriculture, stock-raising and fruit-growing.

Stock-raising was one of the earliest industries of the country after that of mining.

Stock-raising is a leading industry, but it has probably attained its full development.

It is situated on a lower terrace of the Andean slope in a highly fertile district, devoted to sugar-cane and stock-raising.

Of the animal products in 1899, the most valuable was live-stock sold during the year ($3,9 0 9,454); the stock-raising industry was carried on most extensively in the S.E.

New South Wales might be described as essentially a pastoral country, and the cultivation of the soil has always beC' secondary to stock-raising.

Nevada is a trading centre for the surrounding country, and a fine farming and stock-raising region, in which Indian corn, oats, wheat, clover, timothy and blue-grass are grown; coal is mined in the vicinity.

The country is admirably adapted for stock-raising.

Oklahoma City's prosperity is due chiefly to its jobbing trade, with an extensive farming and stock-raising region, but it has also cotton compresses and cotton gins, and various manufactures.

Agriculture and Stock-Raising.--Oregon has some of the most productive agricultural lands in the United States, but they are rather limited in extent, being confined for the most part to the valleys west of the Cascade Mountains and the counties bordering .on the Columbia river east of those mountains.

Sheep and cattle are raised extensively on ranches in the semi-arid regions, large herds of cattle are kept on lands too wet for cultivation in the western counties, and stock-raising and dairying have become important factors in the operation of many of the best farms. The acreage of wheat was 810,000 in 1909 and the crop was 16,377,000 bushels.

Most of the Indians are engaged in farming and stock-raising, but a few still derive their maintenance mainly from fishing and hunting.

Enid is situated in a flourishing agricultural and stock-raising region, of which it is the commercial centre, and has various manufactures, including lumber, brick, tile and flour.

Stock-raising is an industry of growing importance, the value of the live stock in the state increasing from $71,068,758 in 1880 to $93,361,422 in 1890 and $109,550,761 in 1900.

The plateau is less densely wooded, but has some highly fertile plains, the open cameos being partly devoted to stock raising.

Stock-raising is favoured by the excellent grazing lands; blooded cattle are imported for breeding.

Stock-raising is favoured by the existence of a bromeliaceous plant, called mecambira, which is sufficiently juicy to satisfy the thirst of the animals.

Indian corn, wheat, cotton, oats and hay are the principal crops, but the variety of farm and garden produce is great, and includes Kafir corn, broom corn, barley, rye, buckwheat, flax, tobacco, beans, castor beans, peanuts, pecans, sorghum cane, sugar cane, and nearly all the fruits and vegetables common to the temperate zone; stock-raising, too, is a very important industry.

Surveys made since 1909 showed that the part of southern Angola suitable for European colonization was larger than had been supposed and that the plateau, which is free from tsetse-fly, was well adapted to stock raising.

A greater part of the state was reported improved in 1890 than in 1900; the change was due to the increase of stock-raising in the West.

Alfalfa, stock raising and dairying, afforestation, " dry-farming " and irrigation are, however, proving that the West can maintain prosperity by not relying upon ordinary agriculture.

Stock-raising and dairy-farming are flourishing in the Perche, which is famous for the production of a breed of large and powerful horses.

The principal industry is stock-raising, which dates from the first settlement in 1674 by Domingos Affonso Mafrense, who established here a large number of cattle ranges.

Nevada is a great ranching state, and stock-raising has shown a rapid extension.