Cattle and Cotton
Across
- 4. a way or system of doing something
- 7. barbed-wire fence of miles long used in the Texas Panhandle to mark the northern and southern limits of a rancher's land to prevent livestock from drifting off the land and wild cattle from drifting onto it and competing for food
- 9. the small, hardy horse of the West, descended from horses brought by the Spanish
- 10. the Spanish word for "rancher"
- 11. left unplanted for one or more growing seasons
- 12. money charged in exchange for a service or permission to take an action
- 13. a group of investors who join together to fund a business
- 16. the movement of cattle in large herds to a stockyard or market
- 17. a number of things or events that are arranged or happen one after the other
- 18. a farmer who works land owned by another and pays rent either in cash or in shares of the crop
- 19. a ranch hand who takes care of saddle horses
- 20. a set of partly unreal ideas associated with a person or object
Down
- 1. a place where livestock are penned before they are slaughtered or shipped elsewhere
- 2. a state of enforced isolation designed to prevent the spread of disease or pests
- 3. to encourage people to take part in an activity
- 5. a farmer who, in exchange for labor, is provided with seed tools, living quarters, and food and receives a share of the value of the crop
- 6. a serious crime for which punishment may be imprisonment or death
- 8. a person who moves livestock overland to market
- 14. a farming approach that uses careful plowing to keep loose soil on top, slowing evaporation to keep soil moist
- 15. public land that could be used by anyone, usually for grazing cattle
- 17. any person, place, or thing that supplies something that is wanted or needed