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