Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Producing sheep and wool: especially noting a tract of country.
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Examples
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Yet, although the vine was thus early started in Australia, it has since made but little progress, relatively speaking, in comparison with the great industry of wool-growing, and it will be appropriate to make this reference to the grape and the fleece conjointly, for the same name — that of John Macarthur — is intimately associated with both.
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The disproportion between the attention which has been given to viticulture and that which has been bestowed upon wool-growing is well brought out in the following table: —
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It is not often that one man has the opportunity of establishing two such great industries as wine-making and wool-growing.
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Richards delivered an interesting address on wool-growing and the merino as a mutton sheep.
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Sentiment was strong against the tariff in the agricultural parts of the West and especially in those sections not committed to wool-growing.
The United States Since the Civil War Charles Ramsdell Lingley
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Yet, although the vine was thus early started in Australia, it has since made but little progress, relatively speaking, in comparison with the great industry of wool-growing, and it will be appropriate to make this reference to the grape and the fleece conjointly, for the same name -- that of John Macarthur -- is intimately associated with both.
The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken Philip E. Muskett
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The disproportion between the attention which has been given to viticulture and that which has been bestowed upon wool-growing is well brought out in the following table: --
The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken Philip E. Muskett
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Australia is one of the principal wool-growing countries in the world, for the breed of sheep sent out to that country and
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It is not often that one man has the opportunity of establishing two such great industries as wine-making and wool-growing.
The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken Philip E. Muskett
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If the field in the mean time be devoted to wool-growing, butter or cheese-making, or to stock-raising, particular care must be taken to make great crops of grass or clover to grow on the land, and have all the manure, both solid and liquid, applied to its surface.
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