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Other slaves appear to have indulged in deliberate mischief, trampling down crops, breaking tools, and abusing livestock.
Livestock producers, in their fourth straight year of record losses, were liquidating breeding herds at an unparalleled rate.
Crops and livestock, assets patiently acquired by often poor, but always peace-loving, law-abiding farmers, were wantonly destroyed.
With a view to raising productivity and output, livestock production is to be increasingly concentrated on large specialized farms.
They sought to make improvements by constructing, for example, buildings, irrigation systems, roads, granaries, and shelters for livestock.
The foliage is well liked by livestock; consequently young trees have little chance of surviving in heavily grazed pastures.
It was a long time before soiling became common even in that district, but this experiment engendered better care of livestock.
Fruits of the Mesquite, which resemble string beans, ripen in autumn and are eaten by domestic livestock and other animals.
My four stars denote that I disapprove of all these rules prohibiting the carrying of livestock from one planet to another.
Distribution and management of livestock are carefully regulated to prevent damage to the forest growth and to conserve the forage resources.
These thorny bushes seem to be resistant to browsing, and elsewhere have been noted in abundance in woodlands heavily used by livestock.
These difficulties did not seem obviously connected to industrial agriculture, to abandonment of livestock, manuring, composting, and to dependence on chemistry.
This type of hacienda tended to be located in more remote areas, in an attempt to prevent the livestock from invading cultivated fields.
For his services the minstrel receives payment, sometimes in money, sometimes in corn or livestock, sometimes only in coffee and cigarettes.
The cabbage-like base, after the leaves are removed, is split and fed to livestock as an emergency ration during periods of drought.
Other species which prefer soils rich in selenium take up enough of that toxic mineral to make them poisonous to livestock, especially sheep.
"For my taste, all Youths should be kept penned with the livestock until they grow a carapace to tame their irresponsibility."
The fruit portion of the integrated planting will maintain a high carbohydrate ration during the season for the use of the livestock.
Nevertheless, domestic market supplies of livestock products remained chronically and seriously short of demand, in part because of the magnitude of exports.
After the raid the surviving colonists had to abandon many of the outlying plantations with their arable fields, livestock, and supplies.
Certain species of Sunflowers are now being developed for commercial purposes and produce oil for cooking and meal for livestock feed.
Other ever-present problems involved water resources, drought, livestock losses from disease and predators, and remoteness from markets, schools, and doctors.
The natives run the smelters; use the heat to thaw frozen food for themselves and their livestock while they're melting the ore.
They have commercial value as livestock feed and are sold as dry pulp in feed stores located near regions where sugar beets are grown.
Periodic crises like typhoons, crop failures, and the death of valuable livestock regularly badgered the colony, but Gus contrived to ride them out.
The fly lays eggs in open wounds of livestock, including navels of newly born, and the burrowing maggots inevitably kill the animal.
The south slopes that were originally prairie, were evidently only sparsely clothed with trees up until the thirties when livestock were fenced out.
The hacienda produced barley, oats, beans, wheat, corn, chickpeas, and livestock: cattle, sheep, goats, mules, and horses, in increasing numbers each year.
The flowers furnish honey bees and other insects with nectar, and the long, sweet pods ripen in autumn, providing food for livestock.
The nuns expected to draw the greater part of their food from the farm; livestock, grain and dairy all had to be superintended.
Growing oats and returning enough manure to represent the straw and grain fed to livestock, the field held its organic matter relatively constant.
Within a few years, farm crops and livestock brought to the whites more food and clothing than the Indians had ever dreamed of.
Development of the livestock economy has been hampered by an inadequate feed base, poor quality of livestock and livestock breeding, and inefficient production methods.
Now the livestock was landed and Kit, waiting for a boat to carry him ashore, mused about his first encounter with the captain.
If it was livestock, and he says that raiders took it, or it perished of itself, and if he has proof, he need not pay up.
This was a difficult task because the grazing was poor around the settlements and the mountains to the northwest were already filled with livestock.
Several acres of hilltop and south slope in the northwest corner of the area were protected from livestock and maintained for harvesting of prairie hay.
Government efforts to improve livestock breeds and yields through selective breeding, artificial insemination, and better management practices have also been impeded by peasant apathy.
Livestock may reject it the first time it is put into the manger, but a taste for it is quickly acquired, and soon it is eaten greedily.
Now that the trees are tall enough to be beyond the danger of damage from livestock, we graze the pasture under and between the trees.
Dairy schools, farmers' institutes, livestock, fruit growers, agricultural, and horticultural associations also furnish free instruction as to the most successful methods practiced in their callings.
The advertising and educational activities conducted by the packer continuously broaden and intensify the ultimate market for the products which the livestock man produces.
Their domestic livestock ate the grass that formerly supplied the Indians with seed, and crowded out deer and other game upon which they largely subsisted.
The species is tolerant of moderate to heavy browsing, but seemingly can be eliminated by more intensive utilization; even the higher foliage is often within reach of livestock.
A knowledge of crops, of soils and tillage, of livestock breeding and feeding and other purely agricultural subjects constitutes but one side of the farming industry.
A planned expansion of livestock herds and of the output of livestock products has been hampered by inadequate incentives for peasants and by a shortage of fodder.
These small emigrant ships of the seventeenth century, besides men, women and children, brought over much livestock housed in temporary pens and shelters built amidships.
Within a week other large islands, which the army and the fleet might naturally have regarded as their own storehouses, were stripped of livestock and hay.
On many areas, grazing by livestock and rodents combined has practically eliminated the native grasses, and these are now being replaced with weeds and poisonous plants.
Livestock is their mainstay; and already, though the day of the big ranch is over, the number of cattle in the West is greater than ever.
With protection from prairie fires, woody vegetation had encroached onto areas that were formerly grassland, and, later, fencing against livestock permitted dense thickets of undergrowth to develop.
One of the chief results of fencing off the wooded hillsides was that shrubs and young trees, formerly held in check by livestock, were allowed to flourish.
After the snails our only livestock for a while was the canteen rat, whom I have never met myself, but of whom I have heard large rumors.
The whites had brought with them their livestock, which they grazed upon the public domain, turning the cattle and horses loose and herding the sheep.
This company had been granted the usual colonists' privileges, including the introduction, without duty, of livestock, agricultural implements and household effects, but had no special concessions.
Plants are drought-resistant, unpalatable to livestock, and may be found in blossom during any month in the year, although much more prolific during the spring and summer.
That mistakes were made in handling the livestock interests; that in some cases individuals were unduly hampered with rules enforced by over-zealous forest officers, is not to be denied.
This has caused the beginning of sheet erosion in areas where there would still be ample forage for livestock had it not been for the excessive numbers of rodents.
The first good laugh followed not long after that, upon reading how a former governor colluded with a livestock speculator to run up the price of breeding bulls.
It is helping to solve marketing problems; encouraging better breeding of livestock by buying sires and reselling them at cost, and doing many other things of like character.
After the petals form, seeds form in bean-like pods which are not relished by livestock, but are eaten during periods of drought and when other forage is scarce.
Through war the Navajos had lost twenty or thirty men; with peace they could herd their livestock in distant places where forage was good without fear of molestation.
Evidently the tree is intolerant of browsing by livestock, as few were growing in the pastured areas in 1948, but as soon as livestock were removed these areas were rapidly invaded.
Recently, workmen laying drainage pipes through the ravine had uncovered a long trench filled with many bones, ghastly witness to the folly of neglecting livestock, human or otherwise.
If livestock is allowed to graze in the orchard, which is a questionable practice while the trees are young, the trees should be pruned and trained to fairly high heads.
The pristine and high-quality forage of the Craters of the Moon Wilderness Area, historically nearly untouched by domestic livestock grazing, has inspired this migratory strategy for evading drought.
Horses, cattle, hogs, livestock of all kinds had vanished before the advancing hosts of hungry soldiers; and there was one thing which was even more a rarity than these.
Experiments have shown that a taste for this bitter plant can be acquired by livestock, and it is nearly as nutritious as alfalfa when cut before it becomes coarse and woody.
For better control, it was eventually decided to divide the train into two parts: an advance group unencumbered by livestock, and a slower group that would take the cattle.
For swine, and other small livestock, the crotch stakes may be replaced by blocks or stones, and the lower poles be small and begin close to the ground.
Once the livestock begin to trample or compact the soil, tree growth slows down and when that happens it makes the tree more susceptible to attack by insects and fungi.
Many other charters were soon granted, and the state was covered with a network of turnpikes which were in general thronged with vehicles and livestock, and were therefore vastly profitable.
Gradually, more and more individual property was assigned to each home; farmers were given a share of their own produce and livestock and sawmills and freighting were operated under lease or contract.
"Your lands and tenements, cattle of all kinds, and livestock of all sorts, are forfeited to the crown," they were told, "and you yourselves are to be removed from this province."
In most cases they were first employed by the enemy as "Cattle Rangers," to gather in the livestock from the farms and protect them from recapture by the Boer commandos.
In the directives for the Sixth Five-Year Plan the party reaffirmed the importance of private farm plots as a reserve for the increase of farm output and particularly of livestock production.
Herbaceous ground vegetation was almost lacking, and low woody vegetation was also scarce, in contrast to the parts of the woodland that were adjacent but separated by fences that excluded livestock.
I believe as reforestation progresses there will be certain trees located which have value as seed trees and which will improve the forest equal to the improvement in livestock on the farms today.
Shooting for the pot is engaged in with a degree of eagerness commensurate with its importance, now that our livestock has been exhausted, and we have little besides ship's provisions to live upon.
The introduction of livestock and reindeer for fresh food removes in large measure the necessity for shooting, and the native is ordinarily too indolent to hunt unless he has to do so for food.
A volunteer program, established in 1976, aids the farmer in tending the large vegetable garden, and the livestock which consists of poultry, hogs, rabbits, goats, sheep, dairy cows and draft horses.
Livestock guards will need to be placed about the trees at planting time and kept there until the trees have grown to the point where they may no longer be harmed by straddling and browsing.
Another major reason has been an officially induced transfer of livestock from individual peasant ownership to the collective and state farms, where it is subject to the much-criticized negligent attitude of the peasants toward state and communal property.
While on business at court, he had opportunity to see his friends, play cards, gamble, race horses, fight, drink, "swap" horses and other livestock, attend the muster of county militia to which he belonged, and see the newest articles imported from England.
They are also requested to cause those marrying to treat each other properly, to cause them to have many children, to cause everything which they plant to grow well, to cause them to have luck with their livestock, and to give them long life and riches.
Too much stress can not be put upon the value and importance of livestock in keeping up favorable soil conditions, as no country now known has been continuously successful in crop production without the use of manures from the feeding of forage and grain crops.
The teaching of agriculture has been made vital and effective by the home project in which the boy comes to appreciate the value of the principles studied at school in connection with an agricultural enterprise in raising crops or livestock of his own on the home farm.
We have perhaps already experienced the satisfaction of raising our own first crop of corn or potatoes, of acquiring our first livestock, of putting away or selling our first supply of canned fruits or vegetables, of buying a set of tools, a bicycle, or some books, of starting a bank account.
If they can be interested to utilize this knowledge in the care of the health of their own families, and if they will provide health facilities for their own families equal to those which they feel necessary for their livestock, health conditions on the farm will show rapid improvement.
It shows that wheat is the great competitor of the meat crop, that wheat has driven livestock from the western ranges, and that during the past four years wheat has been driving the dairy cows and the beef steer from the eastern and middle western farms.
Moreover, a father may attach his children to himself in a very real and spontaneous service, if he will allow each child, including the daughters, to be responsible for some part of the farm business, to own a piece of land or some of the livestock, and to control the produce thereof.
Farmers are becoming more fully alive to the advantages they derive from this source and are realizing that their borrowing credit is greatly enhanced if they can show a good proportion of cattle in their assets, and banks should look with favor on loans for the purchase and handling of livestock.
The culture of coffee is not difficult, and by conforming to a few well-known requirements which the industry demands it can easily be carried on by the wife and children, while the head of the family attends to the harder work of the field, or to the care of livestock in adjacent lands.
The fresh blood of the country which makes the enterprise of cities possible comes from the boys and the girls who warmed their feet on October mornings where the cows lay down; who have been brought up to work on land, to plant and hoe and harvest and look after livestock.