Word Finder - husbandry

definition

The occupation or work of a husbandman or farmer; the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock; agriculture.

synonyms

• agronomy

definition

The prudent management or conservation of resources.

synonyms

• economy
• frugality
• thrift

definition

Administration or management of day-to-day matters.

definition

Agricultural or cultivated land.

No crop responds more readily to careful husbandry and skilful cultivation.

When she was studying animal husbandry, there was a chapter about increasing fertility.

I didn't get a degree in animal husbandry so I could sit in the house knitting booties.

Greek husbandry had no salient characteristics.

But the progress of husbandry, evidenced by the production of larger and better crops with more certainty, is due to that rationalizing of agricultural practices which is the work of modern times.

Under the manorial system, the rise of which preceded the Norman Conquest, communal methods of husbandry remained, but the position of the cultivator was radically altered.

I went to college and studied animal husbandry.

You're the one with a degree in animal husbandry.

We now have categories for Dutch writers, Dutch historians, Journalism (linked to Industry and business), Animal Husbandry and Horticulture (linked to agriculture and agriculture was linked to economics and biology).

The other side of the coin is cattle husbandry.

Poor farmers are encouraged to form self-help groups and receive training in goat husbandry.

The husbandry of the country was thus steadily improving, when suddenly the whole of Europe became involved in the wars of the French Revolution.

Previous to this period the husbandry of Scotland was still in a backward state as compared with the best districts of England, where many practices, only of recent introduction in the north, had been in general use for generations.

That region was the most fertile, had the best husbandry, and possessed the most civilized population, a people essentially English in language and institutions, but indomitably attached to the Celtic dynasties of the western and northern part of the island.

Husbandry depended on the periodical rains; and forecasts of the weather, with a view to " make adequate provision against a coming deficiency," formed a special duty of the Brahmans.

The gradual spread of intercourse rendered unnecessary the natural husbandry of former times which sought to produce a complete set of goods in every sepa rate locality.

The college offers four-year courses in agronomy, animal husbandry, dairying, domestic economy, general science, veterinary medicine, and civil, mechanical, electrical and mining engineering.

The land being appropriated by the conquerors, husbandry, as the most respectable industrial occupation, became the legitimate calling of the Aryan settler, the Vaisya; whilst handicrafts, gradually multiplying with advancing civilization and menial service, were assigned to the subject race.

It grew up as a consequence of customary subjection and natural husbandry; it melted away with the coming in of an industrial and commercial age.

Though Lapland gives little scope for husbandry, a bad summer being commonly followed by a winter famine, it is richly furnished with much that is serviceable to man.

In addition to instruction in the ordinary branches, the teaching in the district schools of the elementary principles of agriculture, horticulture, animal husbandry, stock-feeding, forestry, building country roads and domestic science is required.

The land is well cultivated, and the husbandry on the royal domains and the large estates especially so.

Why would he have chosen to major in computer technology instead of animal husbandry?

In the main we want proper animal husbandry, but it would appear we want it to always be on someone elses door step.

We welcome this change in favor of good animal husbandry.

Having this approval provides you with the guarantee that it comes from Poultry farms, which follow the highest standards of humane animal husbandry.

Before all this intensive animal husbandry, diseases were present, but were easily spotted and could be dealt with.

According to MAFF, most fatalities among lambs are due to poor animal husbandry.

The idea is to train capable school leavers in basic animal husbandry and diagnosis and treatment of the more common problems.

This attention to detail and concern for excellent animal husbandry produces tender meat consistent in quality and flavor throughout the year.

The charity also contributes by supporting research and through promoting education on farm animal husbandry and welfare.

The husbandry requirements for the American copperheads are not much more complicated than for any other snake.

Explain the role of pastures for animal husbandry, in your locality.

The growth of pastoral husbandry was favored also by the occupation of domain-land.

In a general sense, improved understanding will lead naturally on to potential control methods such as drugs, vaccines and improved animal husbandry.

Even with the most careful husbandry, inputs will increasingly be essential.

The Saami people's rights to land and water for reindeer husbandry, and for hunting and fishing are regulated by law.

However, Indians were reluctant to adopt English practices of livestock husbandry.

As can be seen from the distribution of animals on organic farms, a concentration process has taken place in pig and poultry husbandry.

This would allow Ghanaian vets to determine the epidemiology of Cowdria infection in domestic ruminants kept under different husbandry systems.

This " extensive " husbandry is found in combination with a nomadic or seminomadic and pastoral organization, such as that of the German tribes described by Caesar and Tacitus (see especially Germania, 26).

Even the earliest forms of intensive cultivation demand the practice of the fundamental processes of husbandry - ploughing, manuring, sowing, weeding, reaping.

History Of English Agriculture The " combined " or " common-field " system of husbandry practised by the village community or township (see Village Communities) may be taken as the starting-point of English agriculture, in which, till the end of the 18th century, it is a dominant influence.

Later on the increasing abandonment of arable husbandry for sheep-farming brought about a less demand for labour, and rural depopulation was accelerated as the peasant was deprived of his grazing-ground by the enclosure of more and more of the waste land .2 From the beginning of the reign of Henry VII.

Young's condemnation of these survivals was as pronounced as his support of the methods of the large farmers to whom he ascribed the excellence of the husbandry of Kent, Norfolk and Essex.

To this period also belong George and Matthew Culley - the former a pupil of Bakewellwho left their paternal property on the bank of the Tees and settled on the Northumbrian side of the Tweed, bringing with them the valuable breeds of live stock and improved husbandry of their native district.

It forms a striking illustration of the rural character of the so-called "towns" in Bengal, and is merely an agglomeration of 41 separate villages, in which all the operations of husbandry go on precisely as in the adjacent hamlets.

In 1765 he published a small pamphlet On the Flax Husbandry of Scotland; and, besides availing himself of his extensive acquaintance with the proprietors of Scotland to recommend the introduction of manufactures, he took a prominent part in furthering the project of the Forth and Clyde Canal.

It is the improvements in methods, implements and materials, brought about by the application of science, that distinguish the husbandry of the 10th century from that of medieval and ancient times.

But beyond the fact that both Babylonia and Assyria were large producers of cereals, little is known of their husbandry.