What is "husbandry"

Usage examples of "husbandry".

Does it not say that Hu the Mighty, the inventor of husbandry, who brought the Cumry from the summer-country, drew the old afanc out of the lake of lakes with his four gigantic oxen?

Sometimes they came back with wagonloads of seed and grain, or livestock, pigs, and bleating sheep, or the small cobby farm horsesbeasts whose masters would take no further interest in husbandry.

There had been few real halts to the production of food crops and kine husbandry, and such shortages of foodstuffs as had occurred in the land had been caused not by the lack but by the fully understandable reluctance of folk to transport it to or even near the stricken centers of population.

Vineyard, or tilth where lies his husbandry, Fireflies innumerable sparkle: so to me, Come where its mighty depth unfolded, straight With flames no fewer seemed to scintillate The shades of the eighth pit.

On all the islands, the arts mostly practiced by witches, such as midwifery, healing, animal husbandry, dousing, mining and metallurgy, planting and growing spells, love spells, and so on, often invoked or drew upon the Old Powers.

The forest trees, where not too crowded, are of magnificent growth, and the crops are gloriously abundant where the thriftless husbandry has not worn out the soil by an unvarying succession of exhausting crops.

Other topics of conversation having been exhausted, Liir asked his mates, Burny and Ansonby, about the place of husbandry in the development of new defensive systems for the Emerald City.

As it happened, Ansonby and Burny had both flirted briefly with defensive husbandry.

Darkover include among others, dairy farming, certain types of animal husbandry, papermaking, manufacture of certain drugs, grain milling, weaving, dyeing, preparation of wines and certain distilled liquors, small-scale mining of platinum, gold, silver and some of the exotic metals, but nothing classifiable by TE standards as heavy industry.

SPIRIT OF THE YEARS He was my old fiend Death, in rarest trim, The occasion favouring his husbandry!

We know their wisdom included the rudiments of agriculture and animal husbandry and stonemasonry, along with much else which will only be revealed when the translation is complete.

After listing his major in agriscience and animal husbandry with a minor in business administration, Ty signed up for more than a full load of classes.

Before the advent of the Patrons of Husbandry the farmers were so isolated from each other that cooperation was impossible.

ALLIANCE The hope of welding the farmers into an organization which would enable them to present a united front to their enemies and to work together for the promotion of their interests--social, economic, and political--was too alluring to be allowed to die out with the decline of the Patrons of Husbandry.

Overhall the rolling countryside, checkerboarded with newly plowed fields, and square woodlots, was pleasantly studded with stone farmhouses and sturdy frame barns, all surrounded by freestone fencesthe small Achievements of freeholders whose forefathers had combined a sweet soil, careful husbandry, and hard work to build moderate wealth on grains, cattle, pigs, cheese, butter, and draft horses.