stall-feed
Americanverb (used with object)
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to keep and feed (an animal) in a stall.
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to fatten (an animal) for slaughter by stall-feeding.
verb
Etymology
Origin of stall-feed
First recorded in 1755–65
Example Sentences
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Would it not be well for some of our farmers, who stall-feed cattle, to try this or a similar mode?
From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by George Dadd
It is a very uneven track of ground, abounding with swamps; here they turn in their fat cattle, or such as they intend to stall-feed, for their winter's provisions.
From Letters from an American Farmer by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur
In latitudes, however, in which it becomes necessary to stall-feed during several months of the year, barns are indispensable.
From Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure by Robert Jennings
They stall-feed very fat, no doubt; but though generally very good, I have never, in any part of the States, tasted beef equal to the best in England.
From Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada by Henry A. Murray
About London, we can scarce have any but crammed poultry or stall-fed butchers' meat.
From Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott
Nevertheless, as Sailen had plenty of money he did not allow his vanity merely to graze at large; he took special pride in keeping it stall-fed.
From Stories from Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
Symptoms.—This disease, although rare, occurs most frequently among stall-fed cattle.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
In the northern districts they are stall-fed on the waste material of the beet-sugar and oil-works, and of the distilleries.
From France by Gordon Cochrane Home
Hence the stall-fed, city-dairy cow, and the farm cow on a rich clover pasture in June or July are especially subject.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
She made inquiry about four-crop rotation, and endeavoured, with Bunce, to go into the great subject of stall-feeding.
From The Belton Estate by Anthony Trollope
For this reason stall-feeding is often resorted to.
From American Cookery November, 1921 by Janet McKenzie Hill
They are excellent farmers, and keep fine stock, which they care for with German thoroughness; stall-feeding in the winter.
From The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation by Charles Nordhoff
But, I repeat, for stall-feeding they are unsuitable; confinement is unnatural to their disposition.
From Cattle and Cattle-breeders by William M'Combie
For a milk dairy, this arrangement is an admirable one—we so used it for four years; or for stall-feeding, it is equally convenient.
From Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings by Lewis Falley Allen
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