Across
- 4. the Spanish word for “rancher”
- 8. 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
- 12. left unplanted for one or more growing seasons
- 13. human-made replacement for a natural product
- 14. the movement of cattle in large herds to a stockyard or market
- 15. a serious crime for which punishment may be imprisonment or death
Down
- 1. a ranch hand who takes care of saddle horses
- 2. 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
- 3. a farming approach that uses careful plowing to keep loose soil on top, slowing evaporation to keep soil moist
- 5. a state of enforced isolation designed to prevent the spread of disease or pests
- 6. a place where livestock are penned before they are slaughtered or shipped elsewhere
- 7. barbed-wire fence dozens 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
- 10. a person who moves livestock overland to market
- 11. public land that could be used by anyone, usually for grazing cattle