Example Sentences

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They had given place to The large farm and The stock raiser.

From Main-Travelled Roads by Garland, Hamlin

During a two-hour ride on a railway train the author had as a seat companion a sixty-year-old farmer and stock raiser, whose specialty was that of raising mules for the market.

From Farm Boys and Girls by McKeever, William Arch

This work, to the farmer and stock raiser, will be useful, instructive, and profitable, enabling them to improve the breed of their stock, preserve them from sickness, and cure them when infected with disease.—Herald,

From Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained by Quinby, M. (Moses)

As for the farmer, the stock raiser was doing better than the corn grower.

From A Short History of English Agriculture by Curtler, W. H. R. (William Henry Ricketts)

About the only examination of water that can be made by the average stock raiser is to observe its taste, color, smell, and clearness.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.