stockbreeder

A stockbreeder uses this drastic measure regularly-and culls the defectives and winds up with a healthy stabilized line.

Time Enough For Love Heinlein, Robert A. 1973

He was one of those who had much to lose and little indeed to gain by taking up arms against us, for, by honest industry, he had become a wealthy farmer and stockbreeder.

Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front A. G. Hales

Would any modern stockbreeder permit the deterioration of his livestock as we not only permit but positively encourage the destruction and deterioration of the most precious, the most essential elements in our world community -- the mothers and children.

The Pivot of Civilization Margaret Sanger 1924

And this, mark you, without the intervention of any stockbreeder, human or divine, and without will, purpose, design, or even consciousness beyond the blind will to satisfy hunger.

Back to Methuselah George Bernard Shaw 1903

Another answer was also possible: namely, that some prehistoric stockbreeder, wishing to produce a natural curiosity, selected the longest-necked animals he could find, and bred from them until at last an animal with an abnormally long neck was evolved by intentional selection, just as the race-horse or the fantail pigeon has been evolved.

Back to Methuselah George Bernard Shaw 1903

No stockbreeder in his senses ever thinks of breeding from a youthful, immature sire.

Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895

The author is a practical farmer and stockbreeder, and is able to vouch for the correctness of the remedies for diseases of Domestic Animals, as well as the best mode of managing them.

Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained 1842

The whole science of Natural History is based on the existence of distinct species, capable of being discriminated from each other by certain characteristic marks; and the whole art of the agriculturist and the stockbreeder proceeds on the assumption of a law, invariable in its operation, whereby "like produces like in the vegetable and animal worlds."

Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws James Buchanan 1837

Would any modern stockbreeder permit the deterioration of his livestock as we not only permit but positively encourage the destruction and deterioration of the most precious, the most essential elements in our world community -- the mothers and children.

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